If you happen to be in London in early December, maybe we could meet and discuss search engines and searching. Pandia is taking part in the December 1 to 4 Online Information Conference.

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and expert on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies will open the 2008 conference with a keynote address that examines “Every piece of information is a latent community.”

Clay’s keynote will, according to the organizers (Incisive Media) explore how published information can call a topic-specific community into being, by linking together the people who gather around it.

The whole conference is devoted to online information trends, including:

• Web 2.0 breakthroughs, consolidation and pay back
• The challenges of information organisation and retrieval in a semantic world
• Information professionals - surviving and thriving the information world implosion

Among the topics covered are ebooks, copyrights, intranets, digital companies, user generated content, information literacy, social networks, the semantic web and more.

The Pandia team (Susanne and Per Koch) is going to talk about search engine optimization for information professionals.

So yes, there are sessions on search engine optimization as well. Search engine marketers will not feel left out, even if this conference is quite different from the SMX, SES and Webmaster World conferences.

The conference is targeting information professionals, librarians, researchers, search and Web 2.0 industrialists as well as anyone interested in the development of the Web and information retrieval.

Read more about the conference and sign up here!