Search Engines -- Taking over the world??? The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: How "search" is redefining the Web — and our lives This intriguing articletalks not just about cool things seach engines are adding to attract us, but how this ramps up concerns over privancy and security ..." In developing its own search engine, Microsoft found that people search an average of 11 minutes before they find what they are looking for. See how long it takes to find the top five university marine-biology programs, or the store with the cheapest tires in Seattle. You searched for java, but did you mean coffee, the island or the programming language? If we increasingly live in an "always on" world, and if our every task starts with a question, then every task could start with search, said Mark Anderson, a Friday Harbor technology forecaster. Search moves to the front of how we think and work, he said, and its impact becomes staggering. "Huge," he said. "That's where the big money is. The number of eyeballs goes up hugely, and all the money comes from eyeballs." So where does search go from here? Some experts say the technology will jump digital boundaries from the browser to other platforms. Its next stop is the cellphone [and mobile devices] in the future, television."  ¶ 5/10/2005