The trends for information search consolidation

Google is HOT. Search market is HOT. 2005 will continue to be a year of search technology. Search technology has moved from Web Search to all kinds of specialized search technologies, image search, video search, desktop search, blog search etc. There is a need to consolidate all the search sources to bring user a search-for-all technology. There are some technologies to be the beginning of the trend.

1. Verity Federator: leading provider of the consolidation technology.
2. Yahoo Search Subscriptions Beta: launched June 15, 2005.
3. Google Könguló: an open source personal web spider for google desktop search.

This list will be updated continuously.