Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

A world of interlinked data - a semantic web in technical terms - could unseat the relatively crude mechanisms of current search today by transforming the way we use the internet. Little steps like the Content Management Interoperability standards plus cumulatively huge ones like O'Reilly's vision of self aware objects will add up to create a new epoch of innovation which will be celebrated at future Web 2.0 conferences.More immediately, as this middleware revolution across the entire underpinnings of the internet gradually unfolds, web 2.0 agile tools increasingly fill the gaps today.Reframe It (a browser extension that lets you comment right next to any text or image that you find on the web in your web browser... disclosure: I'm on their advisory board) is being used today as an internal market research tool by a major firm, who have people privately comment on both client and competitors websites extremely specifically to get feedback, and in thousands of other contextual ways by all sorts of different users.