Google wasn’t the first search engine, nor was it the last, but it quickly became THE search engine because they did something different. Google created a search engine that took all of that information and made it useful and relevant.
By tapping into the social side of information, Google quickly became the best search engine
So the latest ‘big thing’ has been the socializing of the Internet.
The buzz word surrounding all of this has been ‘Web 2.0′. This socializing has gone a long way to making sense of it all, but is there more? What is the next big thing?
The next big thing is…’location, location, location’.
The next big thing is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location.
Pictures and Wikipedia articles are now linked to Google Earth.
The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.
Web 2.0 has helped us begin to organize and make sense of that information. Tying information to a location is the next step