TechNewsWorld
interviews the Galdos' CEO on GeoWeb 2007 and the state of geotechnologies. Of note:
He is among those innovators working to produce the browser of the future: a map display that will let people zoom around a map to find the information they need instead of entering text to search.
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One direction in this new era of GeoWeb will have search engines that will build an index about locations and then let the robots know where to place the information in relation to surrounding places and things.
That last bit sounds like MetaCarta's solution a bit.