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Things are looking less than rosy for the STM, legal, news and yellow pages/directories sectors of the information industry over the next few years, according to the latest forward-looking report from US market tracker Outsell.
FutureFacts: Information Industry Outlook 2006 was released to coincide with Outsell's annual Go! Industry event last month. It predicts a global compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the industry over the next four years (2005-2008) of 8%.
But it's the search vendors which stand to develop the most muscle. What Outsell terms the Search Aggregation and Distribution Services (SADS) sector will have a CAGR of 17% during this period, well outperforming any other sector, and making it morph into the second biggest market after the News and Trade sector.
Outsell expects global SADS revenues of $43.9bn ([pounds ...