I enjoyed this post greatly. I believe that, some years from now, we will look back at 2009 as the year web search got transformed in a big way and by the end of 2010 the world of search and related industries will begin to look very different. For example, a few of us have been working hard on a new kind of search for several years. Our creation TipTop, a real-time, semantic, social search engine, is now available in a beta version. Please give it a try. We have recently transformed comparison shopping as well at http://ftt.nu/shopping where we offer a way for users to find out about different product options effortlessly.