eWeek 2004 Search Roundup

eWeek has a roundup of what happened in search in 2004. Get all the skinny at Story.news.yahoo.com.

My prediction? You thought 2004 was something, 2005 is going to be even more hectic. The Microsoft hat is officially in the ring for better or for worse, RSS is now a fixture and only one big search engine (Yahoo) is doing anything about it, multimedia search will become somewhat more important, and government and institutional sites are putting ever-more-impressive data collections online, and nobody's harnessing those. I think 2005 is also the year that an "unknown" search engine comes out of nowhere and gets regularly mentioned beside Google, Yahoo, etc.
My guesses: Feedster, Gigablast, or Vivisimo.

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