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What's Next For Search?

ClickZ, Friday, August 7, 2009 4:15 PM

Anna Maria Virzi shares her thoughts on what's next for search. Although the visual search engine SearchMe, which had $44 million in funding, had to retreat offline because it ran out of money, there's still a "mind-boggling number of ventures" seeking to carve out a niche to help people online find more relevant information faster.

Some of those search niches include travel, shopping and jobs, Virzi writes. So how are fledging search engines differentiating themselves from Google and Microsoft's Bing? Virzi asks Charles Knight, an analyst and editor at AltSearchEngines, for insight.

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