Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was recently interviewed at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009, which is essentially a tech conference for CIO’s and IT directors. While there, he spoke about what he thinks the Web will look like in 5 years. Two comments that he made really stood out to me:
1. “We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”
2. “It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that is the great challenge of the age.”
To read technology blog ReadWriteWeb’s writeup of the interview, click here.
For the full interview (Video on YouTube), click here.