Marissa Mayer led the user interface and web servers teams when she joined Google in 1999. Her titles have changed through the years, and have included Director of Consumer Products and finally Vice President of Search Products and User Experience; but essentially from 1999 through last week Marissa was responsible for product direction and decisions […]
I was privileged to spend an evening at Google Haifa with: Yossi Matias, Head of Google’s Israel R&D center Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search Products and User Experience Noam Nisan, Google research scientist Some Googlers demonstrating some of their products (Sadly I didn’t catch their names — anybody who knows them, feel free to […]
It seems that every search conference I attend Microsoft has a new guy representing them. And except when they sent Ballmer they’ve generally failed. Last year’s PubCon ended with a smackdown between the search engines, and Google’s Matt Cutts looked like he was sitting in his living room entertaining his guests while the Bing rep […]
I just found an interesting reason why some people want to believe that Facebook will replace Google. With Google you have to decide what you’re looking for, and with Facebook interesting things come to you. There’s a fantasy that technology will free us from having to think, and decide, to be disciplined. “Most of the […]
There’s been a lot of coverage the last few days about Google changing its definition link to point to its own site. Since 2005 it had pointed to Answers.com, and before that to Dictionary.com. A few key points: Answers.com announced this upcoming change in our November 4 conference call and in SEC filings. Google was […]
I, like many other Americans, have been enjoying my weekly fix of American Idol. I live in Israel, so I usually don’t get to see it until Saturday night. I usually try not to know what’s going on until Saturday night, but this time I couldn’t help myself. Besides, being on both Facebook and Twitter, […]
For some reason, all the pages that were indexed are no longer indexed. I have no idea what happened. I’m down to having only 7 pages spidered. Basically, I’m down to the links on the homepage. As another test for this blog, I’m going link Pekingese in this blog to see what happens. I thought that […]