China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, INFORMATION filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China GOES, others, ALSO INFORMED by different values, are already and will follow.
Read MoreI THINK the SEARCH engines are the new equivalent of PUBLISHING: an enabler of INFORMATION.
Read MoreI REMEMBER that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to FIX Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer SOLD. So you were training people on a SKILL that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any NEW equipment in 20 years.
Read MoreTraditional horizontal search ENGINES cannot ALWAYS identify the target AUDIENCE, niche or vertical INDUSTRY of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this ISSUE by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.
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