Archive for January, 2010

In 2006, a micro-blogging website crept onto the Internet and allowed users to share 140 character messages. Nobody paid much attention. Then, as the decade drew to a close, millions of people stood up and took notice. Over the last year, Twitter was the fastest growing website on the internet and businesses have been signing up in their thousands.

If the 1990s was the decade of Microsoft, then the last decade belonged well and truly to Google. As search became the prime source of online traffic and income, Google.com became the internet’s most visited page, and Google became one of the world’s most consistently profitable businesses.

But is the decade of search coming to an end? If it is, what will replace it? And how will businesses need to adapt?


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