Episode 12 - Google's Marissa Mayer

[crumbles]

Do you use Google? You'll want to watch Google's VP of Search Products, Marissa Mayer, talk about acquiring tech startups vs. developing tech in house, Google's APIs and, of course, the GPhone.

[crumbles]

I remember running into her picture a long time ago on the internet. I remember thinking she was pretty cute. Go google! :D :D

http://www.pascalrossini.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mayerMarissa_5102.jpg

[jsmith05]

I really found this interview to be one of the best interviews I have seen on this show. But they took it easier on her compared to last weeks MS interview.
I don't think what they did in the MS interview was out of line but I would like to see every company rep asked about the same line of questions.
And don't get me wrong I am no MS fanboy, I am a long time linux fan and after vista I will stay a linux user for sure.

[unimaginative]

While the show itself was informative and at moments revealing, I wanted Om to ask some of the juicy and challenging Google questions. I assume he wasn't allowed to.

Marissa is the consummate face for any Technology company. Therein lies the problem. She kept the entire conversation at a pretty simple & non committal level.

I found it enjoyable watching a grand master at work, but I didn't actually learn much other than Google's latest proposition phrases ;)

[phirewerk]

She reminds me of Scarlett Johansson

[frankleeding]

Anyway - sort of a sum of of ep's 11 and 12...


First HARSH WORDS, then (hope-fully) healing energies...

For me (techno geek #00059; everything is CODE) - waste of time.

(i'm combinting my comments for ep 10 as well - google
and m/s - THE GIANTS)...

M/S is having a hard time re-fitting their business
models (vertical integration???? - talk about the problems
of being a 50_000 story tall building - reaching from 3000
miles below the surface to Synchronous orbit - some of those
stories are 20_000 feet tall!) - into the various *OTHER* venues.

Google - like wise; is this the price of success?????

..................(puts on nice fuzzy fezz)............

Anyway,

Thought that both Dan'l & Marissa comported themselves well.

FAO Dan'l - Good stuff; you could easily write up something
on the probs of I/W'g in such an enoromously
large client base. Also, of course thought well
of your comments of M/S taking its role as key
player seriously as to I/W'g with other products.

In the old days of course, it was just that the little places
got bought out - hopefully if that's happening today (surely not ;)
the "look and feel" of the original isn't lost following absorption.
-- still cursing the latest HotMail update!!! oh well: Evolve or die.

FAO Marissa - Superb presentation on how to use the web to keep
track of appts, contact info, issue resolution, etc.
If *onlY* people i (we?) have to I/A with would take
a note. (hmmm, thinks to self, poss new essay:

Info/Sys's -- using web things to more timely/
effective, and of course avoid info overflow.

As regards monitised vid's etc - what about the micro-chit? That is
if i put just one $1 (Altarian) on line, that i could charge against
it say at about $0.00005 per hit for *certain* things. (Even at that
rate i'd burn thru about $42 Altarian in about a week just listening
to the Jangl ad ! ;)

And of course *still* waiting on g-phone details.

But, for me, always staying netural re: $ ¥ £ € ..., but for most
of us (geeks) unless we are also investors we don't care who provides
the service/product/thing -- unless of course they're killing small
woodland animals for fun (SingleIssueVoter) and such. So, as such
the marketing things and such went "swoosh" right over my head.

But, (puts on "paranoia hat") the prob is that when you have
people like Dan'l and Marissa on there, that there ARE
heartless web-weasles (just the sort that WOULD kill small
woodland animals for fun) out there that use this info to
build bigger, better and more-intrusive WHAT YOU MUST BUY IS....
thingies.

Oh, well my 2-1/2 cents Altarian.

btw: v. much liked the *updates* on where O & J went on their respective
road trips). -- next time take more pictures
(Om "women were taking their clothes off" !!!) - or at least send pics
of the rock/geek stars!!!!

Anyway great show for the "market/industry followers" - my rating is
still that the James Hong & Bill Watkins were the two best guests
-- but me? show me the Flash Drive!! (200 T-bytes, 1-pico watt per
access and 1 nano-sec worst case track-to-track seek time).

Best to all,

- frank.

PS 1: I'm *so* tired of YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS NIFTY TOOL BAR!!!

PS 2: RE: O & J - Both of YOU *always* comport yoursevles v. professionally
- as much as i *personally* would like to see the M/S guys hammered (but
that's just when #$#$#!!!!! XP locks up and *i* lose a massive
CTRL-C / CTRL-V block of clipboard stuff!!!!!

PS 3: Tux and O/Src RULES!!!

PS 4: There is no post-script #4; we appologises for the inconvenience.

[scienceking]

I thought this was an interesting interview. Mayer seemed to handle the interview almost perfectly, but frankly this gave me perhaps a bit less confidence in Google. Unless she was holding back information in her answers, it seemed to me that outside of their core business Google is more or less "winging it". Thats not really that horrible of a thing, but at some point reality has to hit and you have to think about what she is talking about in these liberal investments. This strategy of million dollar investments that "might work, and we still get the talent either way" might sound quaint, but just think about a fraction of that money going toward other super growth industries like biomed, where its almost a sure thing that you'll at least get an interesting patent or two out of the deal. Then the practice starts to sound more or less insane. I know good talent is hard to find, especially if you don't want to grow it yourself, but there has to be some limit to what you get out of that strategy.

[frankleeding]

Well, one thing to remember is that (as far as i can tell) ...

Google is the best search engine - i use the DID YOU MEAN??? all the
time to correct my spelling when i need to...

so, they (like everyone else) is having "markdet identification",
"where IS it going????" , etc probs.

well that's my 2-1/2 centes altarian...
so you have a GEEK-wise google trying to figure out where to
be ; maybe they just need a "protecting over-lord" ???

...(scene from the swamp thing goes here)...

...(mean-while the evil dark lord (that would of course be Bill Gates -
or so we think; in reality Rupert Murdoch ??sp??)....

(goes off to play the jangle add again and again and a...