Technology Review spoke with Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, to get a hint of what we can expect from search technology in the years to come.

This interview is pretty fluffy, but this comment was notable:

Norvig: I think another focus is to understand how people interact with Google and interact with each other on the Web, in general. How do people operate in these social networks? Understanding that question can help us serve them better.

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