How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It

April 17, 2008 - 10:30pm — Jaclyn_McKewan

"Search is dead," begins this article from Popular Mechanics, quoting an unnamed venture capitalist. His thinking goes, "with the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Second Life, LinkedIn and even Google’s own Orkut, the next generation of Web users may find what they want by using their social network rather than a search algorithm."