Bing Chief Scientist: Search as Dialog

An interesting blog post written by Jan Pedersen, Bing Chief Scientist, appeared on huffingtonpost.com 

Here are few excerpts from the post:

“…only 1 in 4 web queries you do gets you a satisfactory answer”

“…today's search is good at yesterday's problem of finding things on the web, but isn't as good at helping you collect, organize, and act on information to make a decision.”

“…Tomorrow, search will be the easiest way to answer a question or to complete a task.”

“… In the very near future search will have become such an essential companion that we will not understand how people survived without it -- indeed that trend is already happening…”

“…By mining the vast amounts of behavioral data that accumulate through usage and through explicit and implicit contribution to the Web, search engines will become increasingly adept at anticipating user intentions. ..”

“…search engines will begin to understand more of the intention behind a user's query through the application of better web crawling and mining and natural-language-understanding algorithms...”

“…the exponential growth patterns we are currently enjoying will continue for at least the next 10 to 20 years, which will fundamentally transform the information landscape…”