a search engine for the zune age

google wave could transform web-based communication. it integrates email, chat, pictures, file sharing, and search into one real-time, many-to-many place in browser. it is open source, which means the best innovations are yet to come.



here's is google's page on it. it will win, because it is designed for how people will use the web, rather than how they use it today. working in real-time, being plugged-in all times is foreign to most folks over the age of 30. i consider myself relatively plugged in, but i can't relate to how kids in junior high do it, and they are the future users of google wave.

meanwhile, microsoft just dropped a ga-gillion bucks on...a slightly better organized search engine (sorry, 'decision engine'), called bing. this will be the zune of search. and then someday someone will similarly call a non-innovation the bing of whatever. for example, someday i will tell my kids about the ford edsel, and tell them that it was like the bing of cars. it is classic microsoft: the main claim is pronouncing the end of search overload. i have to admit, until i saw the bing add, those two words, 'search' and 'overload' had never came to mind. it is a solution in search of a problem. it will get zero buzz. yahoo ceo carl bartz said as much here.