The future of the internet
Search engines
The future of the internet almost completely relies on Google, because the search is done depending on their protocols.
Using different search engines are in vain, as there's a lot of competition,
such as Yahoo and Microsoft who follow Google's example. Google's goal is to systemise all information in the world,
which requires the storage of this data, which could raise both moral and ethical questions.
Google tries to acquire all possible forms of information. They record news's,
scanning books and providing a world map in the form of a picture, as well as collecting our e-mails.
Google's fame shows, that as of today it has become a world leader and always stays efficient and they
generate a significant profit from their adverts. Today it is no longer possible to ignore Google's algorithm,
because if we do not act upon the changes, then our content will not be found.
Google has not had enough just by optimising their search engine,
they also are developing an operating system, and a significant number of users use the Google web browser
Community Portals
The internet's future is also heavily influenced by community portals. The leader of this area,
Facebook, currently is attempting to get an even larger part of the global economy.
Unfortunately community portals large-scale spread has caused the modern world's relationships to become impersonal.
The online portals also have many made up accounts and malicious users.
Younger people slowly become more and more enclosed in their virtual community,
while personal contact moves to the background. One of the interesting thing that
Facebook has done, that with their competitor, Google, they do not share any data.
The servers have been configured in such a way, that only Facebook can search their own content and no one else.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, sees the future of the internet a large network of friends and family.
Facebook has only started integrating, through Connect, they have managed to integrate with a lot of websites and
they have already got some web pages where Facebook has diverted most traffic to. The only question is, who will win.
Data storage
The rapid development of the internet was achieved by the increase in data storage.
To gather all the information in the world, there needs to be a huge storage.
The technology is managing to keep up with the increased demands. Currently there is an oversupply of data storing.
With almost every turn, we can find different offers for storing data.
The technology is moving towards a way of storing data on a server that's further away (cloud services),
but the market tries to resist, as the users are not happy to share confidential information.
Predictions have said that we will slowly move away from using silicon storage and it will be replaced by DNS.