Search is growing up and ready for broadband

The past year saw immense growth in the search sector. Search is bigger today than it was twelve months ago in every respect. With the Internet becoming a larger part of people's lives and broadband access becoming the norm around the world, 2004 was the year that big-business fully recognized the full impact of search. ¶ The search sector drives web-traffic by providing each web user with the dynamic roadmaps and signposts that make the web usable. This fact has finally become staggeringly obvious to anyone with an interest in the web. That these roadmaps are self-generating and are increasingly influenced by the interests of the individual user makes search the most powerful medium in the world. The largest of the search firms have found a stable business model in paid contextually-delivered advertising that promotes growth while providing unequaled opportunities for advertisers. ... Link: Internet Search Engine News.