The growth of blogs on the Web has had quite a lot of implications. Users are seeing many changes in the way they “browse”. Browsers(Mozilla), Search Engines( Feedster, Technorati) are changing the way users look for information on the web.
First point from the user perspective:
1. Will blogs make the term “browse” obsolete ? Are we headed towards coining a new term for the way we interact and use the web? If yes, what do you think might describe this new paradigm shift?

The second point as seen from our(research) perspective:
1. What changes in traditional IR will the World Live Web require ? When the % of blogs on the Web increase what changes in crawling and indexing algorithms are necessitated. Will the current mechanisms used by blog search engines scale ?
2. How would search algorithms deal with redundancy of information. In many cases quoting other blogs is quite common in the blog world.
3. What structure/semantics to information is required ? One of the reasons for the popularity of blogs is RSS – no doubt. Is RSS in the current form sufficient for managing information on the World Live Web ? To what extent is Semantic Blogging useful?

More to follow …

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