It seems that everybody and their dog wants to predict what’s going to happen in search this year. This made me to compile a list of those prediction posts so I can make my own list of biggest prediction blunders when this year is over. Or to proclaim a prophet or two.
John Battelle started the practice of “prediction posts” six years ago, and has been fairly accurate so far.
For 2010, Battelle predicted the end of US dominance on the web, a paradigm shift at Google, a privacy debacle, deterioration of traditional search results and so on.
SEO and Internet marketing experts made quite a number of predictions for 2010.
Local SEO predictions by Andrew Shotland
Andrew predicts the emergence of Open Source Yellow Pages, Google’s complete domination of local search, a dramatic increase in small business search engine optimization budgets and some other interesting stuff that I mostly agree with.
SEOMoz Predictions
Rand feels that Yahoo’s Site Explorer will disappear along with real time search in blended results (to some extent), and that SEO budgets will dramatically increase.
Vertical Measures prediction collection
Featuring 10 Internet marketers predicting various trends in all verticals of search.
I will come back to this when the year ends. 
