Google Boss: Chinese Language Will Dominate Web

Also in 5 years: social media will rule

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 28, 2009 1:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Internet will look completely different in five years, predicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt; after all, he notes, five years is a factor of 10 according to Moore’s law of ever-increasing speed. The Google CEO expounded on the future of the web at length at a recent symposium, but ReadWriteWeb pulled out some of his most interesting predictions and thoughts. Including:

The Internet will be dominated by content in Chinese.
We’ll jump from application to application seamlessly.
Broadband will improve so much that the technical distinctions between radio, TV, and web will disappear.
Users will focus predominantly on social media, rather than traditional sources.

In the present, Schmidt revealed that Google is trying to rank real-time search info, that it’s making “significant money” on YouTube, and that a Google Netbook will hit next year.

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ende

Feb 11, 2010 6:20 AM CST

I think the line between 'reliable source' and 'blogger' will just continue to blur. What qualifies one opinion over another as authoritative? If anything we've seen that Journalists are just as error-prone and petty as the bloggosphere.

JoeQ

Oct 29, 2009 12:24 PM CDT

Dzemma nemma wo bu jrdau.

Acoma

Oct 29, 2009 5:09 AM CDT

Jayster, for once I agree with your social commentary. Mostly you're totally off, but this time you've got an accurate insight into the global commodity chain business between "the first and third world" that could be archetyped by the USA and China

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