Discuss the Future of Search and SEO...

I am interested in your input regarding how search and seo practices are going to evolve in the near future. It is clear that everything is become more specialized and user generated. How is this trend going to effect what becomes expected of search engine optimizers as far as understanding and using networks such as digg, delicious, etc.? Obviously, search engines like Google and Yahoo I too massive to be going anywhere any time soon, but are they on a slow descent to being obsolete due to a user desire to search more vertical? I am interested in any and all thoughts you have on this matter. Thanks for you time!

msn will eventually stop ranking new sites highly, like yahoo and google do, to prevent spammers from making the ranks fluctuate too much.

page title tags, and indeed the whole head, will probably become obsolete, as search engines and other page interpreting devices can judge things for themselves.

the biggest sites will still be the really useful ones, closely followed by the underground networks of spammers and their stuge sites.

badly coded sites will have even less success than at present, as quality of coding is one of the few indicators of overall quality of site, alongside keyword relevance, that's unaffected by link farms.

What exactly do you mean when you say the spammer sites will follow close behind the biggest sites? Do you regard sites like digg and delicious as spammer networks or are you referring to something else? Do you see booking marking and user voted sites ever really taking off? I read some about Google's custom search engines that any user can create. They seem to be going with the trend of increased user created content.

I mean sites that prioritise usefulness over profit will be top

and then the hugest and most well organised marketing teams will create websites to be nearly as popular, with fast and easy profit the primary priority.