It’s Local, It’s Personal--Search Engine & Information Service Trends

Environmental scan for the Digital Library and Information Systems Team, University of Arizona Libraries

Yu SuInformation Systems Librarian

8/3/2006

“The growth in blogging reminds us the Internet is fulfilling its originalpromise about participation.”

--Gary Arlen

Internet is all about participation

The boom of virtual communities

MySpace

Second Life

It’s local, it’s personal

Froogle Mobile (Beta)

CitySearch

Google Transit (Beta)

Google Ride Finder (Beta)

Online newspaper

Content creation and sharing

Electronic publishing

Distributed authorship Wikipedia

Personal information assets management Google Video / Yahoo Video

They keep user data…

Yahoo Tech Buzz Game Collective intelligence about the future of

technology

Customized RSS feed

Google Personalized Search

Google Trends

Business model

Distributed development effort Google Lab: Give us feedback - Discuss with others

Stay close with your audience Seek for brains all the time

“Passionate about these topics? You should work at Google.”

Questions

Do search engines and online information services cover all the library business?

Is there a better business model for library?

What about scholarly materials?

What is library’s role in education?

Now, onto the new world…