Search is a Critical Component of Artificial Intelligence

When everything in the world is data, navigating the data successfully requires technology that starts with and is driven by search. As search has become more and more sophisticated its indexing has become more complicated, its categorization of information ever more deductive. Its understanding of the importance of what it has indexed bounded, as well as defined, by knowledge. In many ways, search has become ubiquitous and invisible. When Google Now lets me know that my "…drive home is 39 minutes" from where I am at a meeting it has taken into account where my car is (by looking at the GPS signal of my phone), the traffic conditions on the way (by using Waze to cross-check information in traffic conditions and possible delays), my own travel patterns (by checking the history of my travelling to and from specific meetings with clients and what I do afterwards).