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"Search" as we know it - Is it on its way out?

Kae

Published on September 6, 2015

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There's Apple's Siri and Google's voice search and Cortana and ...

Try searching for Firefox or Chrome in Windows 10, and the results suggest you use Microsoft's Edge instead

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Searching for anything on an Apple watch doesn't return 10 results (or if it does, you can't see them all.. and scrolling to the bottom of the page on a desktop is certainlyl not the same as scrolling to the #10 result on a watch)

Videos and webinars are being pushed more and more as "the way customers would rather interact".

"Search" is changing in a big way, and I'll admit I'm worried about where this is all going. Should we be focusing as much on ranking on Google's page 1, or should we be focusing on learning how to build and monetize apps?

Gotta know.. because the older I get, the slower I learn!

Well, not really but...

_Kae

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