Open Dialogue

There has been a lot happening in search lately. Yahoo! has finally given up the battle and sold up to Microsoft, increasing the market share for Bing, Microsoft’s recently launched search engine from around 8 to 28 percent. Google, still dominating with a massive 65% share of the market has recently announced Caffeine – a huge update to its search indexing. Live search has also been making headlines, with the likes of Twitter’s new search focused home page and Google’s new time based search options. Even Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted they have lost out to Twitter! So what does all this mean for search engine optimisation?

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Ben and I attended the Bristol Plone Balloon Sprint this weekend, joining around 20 Plone developers and enthusiasts from across Europe. The sprint was kindly organised by Team Rubber, running from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon, to coincide with the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. The event started with welcome drinks in the Woods bar as participants began arriving in Bristol. The lively discussions around agile project management, Plone hosting and support and the anecdotes of previous sprints set the tone for a very enjoyable and productive weekend.

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‘We are on the threshold of the “Next Economy” – an economy characterized by a huge withdrawal of customer spending, an exponential increase in demand for service, and a consequent shift in business priorities from satisfying shareholders to delighting customers.’ – Elliot Ettenberg

As the IMF recently said, we are in uncharted waters. The question is – do we attempt to forge a new way forward or retreat to what we know to be environmentally and economically unsustainable and socially inequitable?

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