the internet giant does have a loose game plan, as marissa mayer recently outlined in a keynote address.

what are the strands?

- more content

- easier computing

- personalization

- better search

unfortunately not much in this article on ‘better search’. could ajax make the experience more emersive?

well, he asked for it, in this recent article in the economist:

http://www.economist.com/theworldin/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=8133511&d=2007

the main slant is towards the development of mobile, web services and and what he terms ‘cloud computing’ - that is the diffuse/community model rather than the traditional client/server approach.