Marissa Mayer

Google’s Busy Week Posted by posts 3 minutes ago ( http://www.techcrunch.com ) View profile Category : Posts I thought December was supposed to be a quiet month, where people go on vacation, and companies don't launch new things. I was wrong. This week is shaping up to be a very busy one for Google as they could have as many as three substantial launches in three days. Monday: Tomorrow morning, the company is holding an event in Mountain View, CA to talk about the evolution of its search product over the years. That may sound ho-hum, but they are also promising to introduce a ... Read Full Story

« Why Doesn’t Balancing Barn Home Fall On That Little Girl? [Architecture] Harman Kardon Jumps on the Blu-ray Player Bandwagon [Blu-ray Players] » There have been a couple of posts today speculating about what Eric Schmidt and his team said about Twitter at a company press event in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday. I have the verbatim text, which I thought might be helpful to post below for the record. The precise question to Schmidt was about the evolution of Google’s thinking on what some people call micro-messaging. “Is this code for Twitter?” Schmidt asked. “The term I’ve been using is micro-blogging.” Yes, it ... Read Full Story

Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec’s lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the list are a variety of female powerhouses and icons including Maya Angelou, First Lady Michelle Obama, Susan Rice, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Mayer has been frequently profiled in business and technology publications over the years, but it’s also nice to see her achievements highlighted in magazines like Vogue and Glamour. The ... Read Full Story

At the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer unexpectedly came on stage to unveil a new product. She first announced that Google has also reached a deal with Twitter , which she wrote a blog post about earlier in the day, following the announcement that Bing and Twitter had done the same thing. But Mayer had more to share. There’s a new Google product called “Social Search” that is launching soon in Google Labs. This is a new feature that allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network. This works by using your Google Profile. ... Read Full Story

It was all happening yesterday at the web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. After Bing announced that it had reached a deal with twitter to integrate real time tweets into Bing, Marissa Mayer (Google VP of Search Products and User Experience) announced that they too had done the same thing. See an extract from Marissa’s post on Google’s Blog about Google and Twitter ”we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, ... Read Full Story