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Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared

Google executives argued that "understanding people, health, communication, education and knowledge" is the next frontier of search. At its annual Searchology powwow Tuesday, a series of executives led by Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, unveiled Google's latest efforts in search refinement, including...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, Productivity, Search, Internet, Mobile Applications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Welcome to 2009: Google's Marissa Mayer to call it quits?

Marissa Mayer, one of Google's oldest employees (that is, in years of service), may be considering a departure to what Gawker thinks is a more suiting position at Stanford. Currently, she works at Google as Vice President of Search Product and User Experience -- meaning she's pretty much in...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, SearchWiki, Professional Development, Search, Career, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Google on search: The real work is just starting

Google's Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, reckons that today's search is a 90 percent solution. But the remaining 10 percent of the search equation will require more than 90 percent of the work ahead if search is to be perfected. Those comments...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-10

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Google Universal Search $25,000 query in Jeopardy

Marissa Mayer's Universal Search assertions have a lot more riding on them now: $25,000!Is Google Universal Search in Jeopardy?"The best answer is still the best answer," Mayer confidently proclaimed upon unleashing Universal Search to the world just two weeks ago. While Mayer always says the right Googley things, she does not always...

Tags: Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Google's Marissa Mayer: Speed wins

Google's Marissa Mayer: Speed wins99%rightbut spoiled by the last observation. Yes I like to get more for my limited time, visit more sites and so on. But it does not give me any more money to spend. Google advertisers take note!

Tags: Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-10

Google's Marissa Mayer: Speed wins

Marissa Mayer of Google gave a testimonial to speed. Her key insight for the crowd at the Web 2.0 Summit is that "slow and steady doesnt win the race." Speed is a huge component and big market driver of Web 2.0, she said.In testing out the user interface for Google...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, web2con, Google Inc., Marissa Mayer

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Build your own Google Search soon

IndexBench or Search Mashup -- take your pick, it looks like Google is indeed developing a service similar to Rollyo. When launched, it will likely have a slow adoption rate like most of their other services -- look at Google Co-op, it certainly hasnt made as much of a...

Tags: Google Inc., Time.com

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Google and Apple "in talks" about iTV

Last week I wrote about the likelihood of Google and Apple working together on iTV (the codename for an Apple product set to be released in Q1 '07). As it turns out, my speculation might not be too far off -- according to Newsweek, Marissa Mayer says the two...

Tags: Google Inc., iTV, Marissa Mayer

Blog posts 2006-09-17

PC Forum: Where in the world is search heading?

The final PC Forum panel had major search vendors and scientists sharing their views on search. The panel included Marissa Mayer, director of consumer product at Google (search, news, images, Froogle, local); Udi Manber, former Yahoo chief scientist and president of Amazon's A9...

Tags: Marissa Mayer, Udi Manber

Blog posts 2005-03-23

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Google announces Social Search with Twitter

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Marissa Mayer announced Google's partnership with Twitter to bring the search engine real-time search results. Just hours before Google announced the partnership, Microsoft released their own Twitter search tool on Bing. Instead of being simply a way to search tweets,...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Search, Twitter Inc., Business Structures, Search, Web 2.0, Finance, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Female leaders in technology [video]

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, an innovation panel discusses ways to encourage women to join the computer industry. Many women come to the industry through other sides of the business--like marketing--and need mentoring and encouragement to find their inner geeks. Panelists include Marissa Mayer, vice president of search...

Tags: Women, Leader, Industry, Video, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Female leaders in technology

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, an innovation panel discusses ways to encourage women to join the computer industry. Many women come to the industry through other sides of the business--like marketing--and need mentoring and encouragement to find their inner geeks. Panelists include Marissa Mayer, vice president of search...

Tags: Women, Leader, Industry, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, AlwaysOn Summit, Stanford University, Computer Science

Videos 2009-08-03

Google to launch new stuff Tuesday

Google announced today that they will be holding a press event called "Searchology" Tuesday. This marks the one-year anniversary of the last event, in which they lauched universal search. If you are looking to watch the event as it unfolds, you can check out the webcast...

Tags: Google Inc., Event, VP, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunities

When did the news industry become like the music industry - a group of finger-pointing businesses trying to find someone else to blame for their woes? In both the music and news industries, the adoption of new technology completely disrupted a long-standing business model. But whose fault...

Tags: Google Inc., U.S. Congress, News Industry, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....

Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Google to turn iGoogle into a gaming platform?

Yesterday I received an invitation for a press event at Google at the end of March. The event will revolve around iGoogle, and what "game publishers" are doing to get involved with the platform. Please join us on the night of March 25th as we give...

Tags: Google Inc., iGoogle, Games, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Google makes mistake, internet goes crazy

It must be tough being Google -- everything they do is under 24x7 scrutiny, and any mistake made is jumped on by anyone looking for a story. For example, for twenty minutes yesterday morning, every Google search result said "This site may harm your computer". It...

Tags: Google Inc., Site, Internet, Cyberthreats, Cloud Computing, Security, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-02-01

Google blames 'human error' for search 'malware' hiccup

Google is blaming "human error" for today's search results screw-up that flagged the entire Web as serving up malicious code. But the company's explanation, detailed in a blog post by VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer incorrectly linked StopBadware.org to...

Tags: Google Inc., Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Search, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-01-31