Cornett Experience

After I missed a few critical email messages recently, I spent a good part of today simply trying to get my email inbox under control. Over the past decade, the “email problem” has slowly grown into an unmanageable beast. I looked at my work inbox today (this isn’t even counting my personal email accounts) and noticed I had over 18,000 emails in the Inbox alone, with over 3000 marked unread (and I file and filter even more than that). Ouch. Staying ahead of email, responding to one as several more come in, has become a Sisyphean task. Quite simply, email is failing us. The system hasn’t scaled with the volume and variety of communication we deal with today.

I’m obviously not alone in reaching this massive point of failure in the email system:

• Lawrence Lessing publicly declares email bankruptcy
• TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington returns from a trip and decides to simply delete his entire inbox
• Andrew Baron starts over as well, telling everyone to resend their email if it was important

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The final whitepaper has been published by Enquiro Research for “Search Engine Results 2010″. In it, they cover what search engines may look like in the future, thoughts on personalization, universal search, eye tracking research, and interviews with leading industry experts such as Marissa Mayer, Jakob Nielsen, and Danny Sullivan. Read full article…

I was recently interviewed by Gord Hotchkiss over at Search Engine Land on the future of Search. The meta question was: “What will the search results page look like in 3 years?” He also interviewed Jakob Nielsen, Marissa Mayer, Danny Sullivan, Michael Ferguson, Greg Sterling, Justin Osmer, and Chris Sherman. Read full article…