François Bourdoncle, one of the pioneers of the search software market, co-founded Exalead in 2000 to revolutionize the world of enterprise search. With his experience in the areas of search technology, software development and engineering, he played a key role in the AltaVista LiveTopics project while directing the Computer Science Research Laboratory at Ecole des Mines de Paris. He also worked as a senior researcher in the Digital Research Laboratory in Paris and in Digital Systems' Research Center in Palo Alto, California. François Bourdoncle holds a PhD in Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and is an author and speaker who is frequently invited to participate in major industry events.

What do you consider to be the most significant challenge facing the web industry? What web search obstacles have yet to be cleared?

"I consider the rise of the mobile Internet to be one of the today's most significant challenges, yet it's a topic about which we hear too little. As users increasingly access services via devices powered by the likes of iOS and Android, to name just the two most prominent platforms, Web technologies begin to lose their importance, and the Web itself to lose its universal character."

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