IL04: day three keynote

Chris Sherman, editor of SearchDay and co-author of The Invisible Web, delivered this morning's keynote, "Search Engine Update & A Look Ahead." Chris is always a wonderful speaker. (He had a workshop rescheduled in Denver two years ago due to 40" of snow in 48 hours.) He has a new book coming out next month, Google Power which sounds quite interesting. The current trends: local search, personalization, the return of "push" (sorta), collaborative search, e-mail & desktop search, and unified search. Chris' "push" were RSS feeds. I've got to disagree with him on this, as I've posted before, since RSS is not push. It might act like it, but it's not, it's pull. (I'll give him points for calling it "push sorta" though.)