Tag archive: Marissa Mayer

We were wondering what Google was up to when it dropped Yelp and other third-party services from Google Places back in July. It looks like the company had a plan after all. Today, the search giant announced that it is acquiring Zagat, one of the longest-running and well-known location rating services. Zagat ratings for locations all around the world will be integrated into Google Places and Maps, giving users professional recommendations on top… Read More

Forget Instant searching. Google's new goal is to predict what you want to know about before you even ask. At the LeWeb conference in Paris, Marissa Mayer, consumer products chief at Google, spoke about her new new role at Google and how the company plans to know what you want before you want it. “We're looking at a lot of things in this geographic area, but we're also doing some things in the area of contextual… Read More

If you tried searching on Google for a short while after 6.30 am Pacific Time on Saturday, you got a shock. Every search result was listed as potentially harmful, with the warning that each site “may harm your computer.” Anyone clicking on a result was advised to find an alternative. The problem lasted for about 40 minutes. Writing on the Official Google Blog, Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user… Read More

Google announced yesterday at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco that it’s partnering with around 100 newspapers to digitize old issues and make them available online. Readers will be able to see entire pages of the old papers, and, using a new algorithm, be able to skip directly to the article they want, according to the BBC. Announcing the move, Google’s vice president of search products, Marissa Mayer, told the… Read More

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Marissa MAyer, leader of Google's search operation, revealed that the long-gestating Google Health initiative will formally debut in early 2008. The announcement follows Microsoft's recent high-profile entry into the medical records and health information with HealthVault earlier this month. Mayer pointed out that a great many Internet users already use Google as a starting point… Read More

Search engine leader Google has begun rolling out its new Universal Search, offering a more comprehensive set of search results spanning diverse online information sources, rather than being limited to just traditional Web sites. Google search results listings now compile search results spanning images, videos, maps, books, and traditional Web sites into a single search results list, with more types of content scheduled to be integrated into… Read More

Google began the process today of trying to regain exposure for their online shopping site. The first major step in this is a name change from Froogle to Google Product Search. Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, speaking on the official Google blog, got right to the point in talking about the name change by saying "Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users… Read More

Lexar has announced that, beginning in January 2006, its portable JumpDrive USB flash drives will ship with Google applications pre-loaded, including Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, and photo organizer Picasa. When customers plug in a Google-loaded JumpDrive, they'll be promoted to install the free Google applications. If the user accepts the installation, the Google apps will automatically be installed and then removed from the USB… Read More

Online search engine Google turned seven years old today (quick, check out the birthday cake on its home page logo!), and announced that it has tripled the number of Web pages that its system can search. The announcement is undoubtedly intended to steal some thunder back from rival Yahoo which recently upstaged Google by claiming to search a substantially larger volume of Web pages. Google has consistently disputed Yahoo's claim,… Read More

“The newest tool bar adds the ability to turn information on Web pages into hyperlinks to related information, check spelling on Web-based forms and translate words from English to one of eight languages. Google, of Mountain View, Calif., derived the tool bar additions from existing features on Google's popular Web search site, said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. “ One of the coolest… Read More

Type a keyword along with an address or city name into the search box at Google.com or at its newly designated site, Local.google.com, to find maps, locally relevant Web sites and listings frombusinesses in the area. “A lot of times when people are looking for something, they want to do it on a local level…This is a core search promise,” said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, who helped build… Read More