Is Search a Thing of the Past by April Holmes.
April covers a survey of 2277 private technology firms that were acquired in 2012.
See her post for the details but the bottom line was:
None of them were search companies.
I can’t remember anyone ever saying they had a “great” search experience.
Can you?
If not, what would you want to replace present search interfaces? (Leaving technical feasibility aside for the moment.)