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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 on search: The real work is just starting

Google on search: The real work is just startingI think Ms Mayer is right -search research and search algorithms are currently in their swaddling clothes. What I suspect will prove especially difficult to resolve is the need to find an acceptable balance between the relevance of search results and privacy...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Google offers old newspapers for online reading

Amid a flurry of start-up launches, Internet search giant Google announces that it is now offering digital copies of old newspapers online through its News Archive Search. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products, makes the announcement from the TechCruch50 conference in San Francisco.

Tags: Google Inc., Search, Internet, Google

Videos 2008-09-09

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-26

iTunes is back in China but Tibet album is not

Any lingering doubts that China was blocking iTunes over the Songs for Tibet album must be wiped away now. The Register reports that iTunes access is back in China, but not for the album released by the Art of Peace Foundation, which features Sting, John Mayer and Dave Matthews. ...

Tags: China, Tibet, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-26

The customer is not always right

How many times have you heard the old adage, "The customer is always right"? If you're like me you just took it as an axiom, something that was beyond questioning. I think it's time for software developers and project managers to start questioning it. Now, I'm not...

Tags: Google Inc., Result, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Google Health launches; Read the terms of service

Google Health has launched for the masses, but watch those terms of usage closely. Google Health, which is expected to officially launch at a Google event today (see Google Webcast, Techmeme and Google Blogoscoped coverage), is now available to the average bear. Marissa Meyer, VP search products...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Information, Terms Of Service, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)

Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today.  Although RIM hasn't said...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Steve Jobs named #2 person shaping the future of IT

Ziff Davis editors from eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline have issued their list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT and Steve Jobs is number two on the list. To come up with this year's list, we looked for people who not only had...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Steve Jobs, CEO, Information Technology, Strategy, Management

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Audaciousness (html)

This sound-production tool manipulates digital recordings of your voice to create a final result that sounds just like the pop singers you hear on the radio and MTV. Put your digital recording through the Cher vocoder treatment, the Rihanna echo effect, or the NIN grinder. It's rumored to supposedly have...

Tags: HTML, Pop Singer, BoyBands-R.us, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-01

In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy

In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus MonkeyboyFunny thing that.I watched some of the MSDN Channel 9 videos recently. People like Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman, Scott Guthrie and others. Likeably, intelligent people you respect. You see them, and you think there is hope for Microsoft.Then you see Steve Ballmer,...

Tags: Public relations, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-29