Over the last decade Internet has proven to be a vast sea of information and we keep on looking for tiny drops of information. that answers our queries. Search engines have now become an integral part of our lives. Out of those, Google search engine has become so common and popular that it has become a synonym for search. Be it a student, researcher, professional or any other person looking for information on the web, and he is bound to look at some search engine or the other to begin their quest, and in most cases the search engine will have to be Google.
We too had an unsolved question lurking in our minds,so we googled up to find its answer. My query was, "What was the name of the school that Mahatma Gandhi
attended?", and the 1 0 links that came up on the results page gave vague informa¬tion leading me nowhere.

A few links re¬ferred to a school or university na med after Mahatma Gandhi, while some other led to Wiki pages where I had to search the content to seek an answer to my query. The same query when run on other search engines too didn't lead to any straight answer. The result is just a guess that might be relevant or not as an answer to the query,as it is based on keywords that are part of the query, which could have a direct answer. But for response, I had to browse through various links. This has been the limitation of search engines till this point; they provide guesses rather than the exact answer to a user's query. And this is an area where things are changing rapidly, with top search-engines vyingto make users' search easier, faster and more accurate.

you compare the present search results to what you were five years back, you will notice a lot has changed in ten:ns of presentations and also relevance. With the advent of Web 2.0, search is undergoing tremendous changes with the influence of
local, personalized and universal search. Even mobile search has emerged as a new trend. Let's look at some of the areas where innovations are happening in Internet search and what we can expect the search to be like in coming years. This will showus what an ideal search engine could look like.