The Social Web is changing web search and the search engine business. This change poses challenges and brings opportunities. Here are some current trends that will change the shape of search in the years to come.

The Pandia team went to Seville, Spain, last week, to take part in a workshop hosted by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a Joint Research Centre under the European Commission. This post presents the main points of one of our presentations there.

These are some of the points covered in the paper:

• How will user-generated content influence existing search products?
• Which new technologies will change the Social Web and search?
• How will the mobile web change the way we search and surf the Web?
• What will be the role of face and speach recognition?
• What will be the impact of Social Web on personalized search

Download the paper (4 pages, PDF).

You might also be interested in a presentation of our position paper “Is there room for an independent European search engine industry?“