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Is quality "Artificial Intelligence" the way that search engines - Google / Yahoo / a new player - are likely to monetise their offerings in coming years?

The Internet is likely to be home to a number of Artificial Intelligence based technologies in coming years - simply because it is so big and unwieldly at the moment.

You think about how much information there is out there, so many sources and opinions and different levels of credibility for the information you read. How do you rank it?

How do you say that the information coming from Source A is more valuable than the information coming from Source B?

Even in professional social networks, forums and message boards - how do you rank the contributions made by the various posters?

Google is on a mission to put every book ever published on the internet, add in blogs, dissertations, conference papers etc - and there is so much GOOD information on the web that a user has little chance of identifying the salient points of any debate and trying to work out what information they need to know without extensive digging.

As more and more niche market social networking offerings come online - I suspect users will be able to not only pick the brains of human industry experts - but also leverage off Artificial Intelligence to find the info they are looking for.

The idea is way to big for a simple person like me to get my head around, but I'm wondering if this isn't the "next generation" of earnings for a company like Google. Where we presently have a simple "SEARCH" function / toolbar which we can add to our sites to help us monetise our offerings, I'm wondering if Google won't look at:

1. Ask an expert a question or
2. "Super AI Search" functionality

Basically a user would be able to use the toolboxes but for a far larger fee be able to draw up high quality information off the web hitting up an army of Artificial Intelligence applications to find the information you require.

The functionality could be the same in terms of posting widgets into boxes but instead of using Google Ads or the Search boxes, these would be replaced by these smarter widgets? It would be a good way to leverage off these massive blogging platforms and networks that are growing rapidly and looking for ways to monetise their offerings.

Anybody got ideas on how much progess has been made in terms of AI in the search-engine space? Are there moves afoot to be able to develop these offerings?

Any South African companies making moves in this part of the AI industry space?

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