Google's #1 Employee Says Search Might Need Another 100 Years!

Is Search Really 90% Solved? Not so, says Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Google's first female engineer Marissa Mayer claims search is “90 to 95%” solved.

I don't know about you guys, but Google might have "90 to 95%" of market share, but to say that search is solved? That's a stretch...

How many times have you tried to search for something and can't find it? Google only indexes 0.004% of the internet.(The fact that it took me 15 minutes to find this figure, proves that search isn't solved, how long would it take your dad?)

Okay but if we are just talking about search, how many of us really uses search engines? I know that my dad doesn't and he's on the computer all day.

Is Google user friendly? How many advance commands, quotes, filetype, site, etc. must we do, for Google to find what we are looking for?

I sometimes have to go to niche search engines to find what I am looking for, when Google doesn't cut the mustard.

I use Del.icio.us to search too, for certain things that Google has a tough time with. If Google was 95% completed than there would be no need for me to go elsewhere for search.

But then again, I am a computer person. I know my way around the web. I know where to got to get information when Google fails me.

But what about the average person? When they go to Google, and Google returns gibberish... what do they do?

What does the future hold? What's beyond search engines?

I like to imagine a web without search engines. What would it look like?

What is search? Just keywords, and an algorithm right? What if there wasn't keywords? How would the web function without search and keywords?

Can my computer know what I want before I do?

Social media is great for this. People don't go on Digg, Delicious, or StumbleUpon, because they are searching for something. They go on there because there's something they want, but don't know what it is yet.

So maybe search doesn't need to be solved. Just how Yahoo! directories were never solved.