{"id":6454,"date":"2016-08-17T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2016-07-07T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:20:08","slug":"internet-trends-2016-speech-and-images-to-challenge-use-of-text-in-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-trends-2016-speech-and-images-to-challenge-use-of-text-in-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Trends 2016: Speech and Images to Challenge Use of Text in Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Meeker\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Meeker<\/a>, partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers, <a href=\"http:\/\/dq756f9pzlyr3.cloudfront.net\/file\/2016_internet_trends_report_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presented her annual state of the internet research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the results were interesting, there was nothing really unexpected in her results. \u00a0Here are some of her findings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet growth is slowing. \u00a0Growth in developed countries has saturated and increasing only slowly in less developed countries.<\/li>\n<li>Search initiated via speech and images will account for half of all searches within five years<\/li>\n<li>Mobile hardware sales like iPhone will continue to be stagnant and decline, while voice-centric hardware and software like Amazon Echo will boom<\/li>\n<li>Messaging apps are positioned to become the &#8216;home page&#8217; of mobile devices.<\/li>\n<li>Google + Facebook account for three quarters of all internet advertising revenues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Finternet-trends-2016-speech-and-images-to-challenge-use-of-text-in-search%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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