Search Continues to Be Business Critical in 2014 by Martin White.
From the post:
I offer two topics that I see becoming increasingly important in 2014. One of these is cross-device search, where a search is initially conducted on a desktop and is continued on a smartphone, and vice-versa. There is a very good paper from Microsoft that sets out some of the issues. The second topic is continuous information seeking, where search tasks are carried out by more than one “searcher,” often in support of collaborative working. The book on this topic by Chirag Shah, a member of staff of Rutgers University, is a very good place to start.
Editor’s Note: Read more of Martin’s thoughts on search in Why All Search Projects Fail.
Gee, let me see, what would more than one searcher need to make their collaborative search results usable by the entire team?
Can you say merging? 😉
Martin has other, equally useful insights in the search space so don’t miss the rest of his post.
But also catch his “Why All Search Projects Fail.” Good reading before you sign a contract with a client.