Happy Birthday, Google! Google celebrates its 10th. As this article notes, Google has become synonymous with search. It’s in our dictionaries as both a noun and a verb. This piece also highlights other tools and peers into the future of search. “Clustering” engines – - e.g., Clusty – - hold promise, so says the writer. What’s more, the author highlights another trend: visualization of search results. See, for examples, Grokker and Quintura. No mention, though of the Semantic Web (unless I overlooked it). Directories a la Open Directory Project were popular a decade ago. Yet humans can’t keep up with the Web’s exponential growth. Still, some companies are employing human editors. Mahalo is one of them.