Devindra Hardawar at Pingdom cranes his neck out from the 10 second time-horizon of Planet Twit, and offers an informed view on where Google might be in ten years time. After Christmas, Google will partly be ranking on how speedily a site responds, so it’s interesting to hear Devindra mention the new fast Google Public DNS service. The gist of his suggestions are:

* faster javascript;
* faster browsers;
* faster DNS;
* better HTML (version 5) leading to better faster online applications;
* dirt-cheap or free internet access, subsidised by private companies;
* Android dominates mobile devices, leading to VOIP phones;
* Google at the speed-of-light (approaching 1/10th of a second, in search response time).

But, as always, the curation problem may remain fairly intractable…

“Their problem won’t be gathering all the data, it’ll be making sense of it […] it’ll be interesting to see how they tackle the rest of the upcoming deluge.”

Part of this problem is the lack of search skills among the general population. Many people have a hard time self-curating, partly because of problems with search skills. Part of the solution might be for Google to offer a robust and beautifully-designed interactive search-skills online tutorial and test. It might be adaptive/morphing, to prevent cheating.