Google Future Plans

Jeff Dean, Distinguished Engineer at Google, gave a keynote address yesterday at Online Information 2002 in London. He mentioned some of Google's future plans, which include

• More comprehensive and fresher database
• Improved usability (will that be a new user interface?)
• Conceptual understanding (perhaps that Google will try to guess synonyms)
• More personalization

We'll have to wait and see how these actually are implemented. A couple other interesting numbers that he mentioned: only about 3% of searches use the advanced search form so they do not spend much development dollars on it and about 10% of queries have misspellings.