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10 Years of Google: Is Search Really 90% Solved?

My frustrating search (ending minutes ago) for 60+ minutes on the real, demonstrated use of long-term inhaled corticosteroids on trying to gain size and strength through weight lifting, demonstrates the absolute infancy and uselessness of many aspects of search. The answer I was looking for was specific and simply, but the search results were a combination of word-salad and uselessness. Search engines are good for looking up "how to train a dog" or "discount jewelry toronto" but for now, that's about as far as it goes. We are nowhere near close to having a global computerized Oracle-type construct that can be asked any question.

5 Key Quotes from Yahoo! on the Internet Industry

His point was, here are the salient points so you don't have to read the whole transcript or listen to the call.