We cannot live online without our bookmarks and we are not the only ones. Bookmarks are one of the fundamental elements of the World Wide Web. Bookmarks once had value and even a price tag. Bookmarks became directories or link lists. Bookmarks then became social and shared.

It looks like everyone is publishing his or her predictions for 2007. We are going to jump on that bandwagon too. The reason is not that we have something to add to the great predictions and insights already written. The reason is we see the year 2007 as possibly the year that Web searching could advance to the next level.

The Web 2.0 revolution is starting to spill into Web search. Web 2.0 services have mostly been anything else but search. Truth be told, the hallmark of most of the Web 2.0 services we have used is low quality search. We have waited for up to a minute for search results to appear at some of the most popular Web 2.0 services, but things might be start to change in the near future.