This report provides an overview of the existing technology in several areas related to search together with the major challenges and future trends. The areas of interest include Media search, Social and Mobile search, Enterprise search, Technology Transfer, and the Economics of Search. For each of these areas the document highlights the overlaps and the differences with the other areas as well as the recommendation for future activities.
The objective of this white paper is to provide an overview of the business areas, the research challenges and the socio-economic aspects related to "Search Computing".
This workshop presents cutting-edge search computing solutions that have been developed to provide users with access to networked media and in particular, social multimedia. It will showcase new techniques and applications have been developed in European research laboratories and focus on those solutions that are ripe for industry application.