Google's vision
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If Google's brand and mission used to be all about search, it is now about "driving technology forward." For about 45 minutes yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page spoke and answered questions at Google's Zeitgeist conference. Google recorded the talk and we've embedded it below.
Larry Page Outlines His Plan And Vision For Google
Brad DeLong takes us to two articles on trouble with Google : basically, scammers and spammers are doing their best to game the search engine, and in the process making it less useful to the rest of us. And people are turning to other search engines that are less affected, precisely because they’re less pervasive and the scammers and spammers haven’t adapted to them. This makes me think of sex. If you follow evolutionary theory, you know that one big question is why sexual reproduction evolved — and why it persists, given the substantial costs involved.
Google Needs Sex
Reuters asked for an op-ed on the handover at Google. Here it is: The miracle of Google was that it could accomplish anything—let alone become the fastest growing company in the history of the world and the greatest disruptive force in business and society today—while being run by a committee, a junta, a council of the gods. In management, as in every other arena of business, technology, and media, Google broke every rule and made new ones.
What did Google do?
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah . While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+ , it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook , it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles.
Google’s Six-Front War
While the company is still largely beloved by the public, sentiment seems to have turned against them amongst their peers, and even amongst many of the startups around Silicon Valley. While these tensions have been building for months — and even years, in some cases — we’re seeing this on display more clearly than ever now thanks to the patent issue(s) . But why? Why is Google now a villain to many in the industry? I don’t believe it’s because they’re evil, I believe it simply relates to the Plainview quote.
With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood
It’s official: Google wants to own your online identity — Tech News and Analysis
Updated. Ever since Google launched its new Google+ social network, we and others have pointed out that the search giant clearly has more in mind than just providing a nice place for people to share photos of their pets. For one thing, Google needs to tap into the “social signals” that people provide through networks like Facebook so it can improve its search results. But there’s a larger motive as well: as chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted in an interview in Edinburgh over the weekend , Google is taking a hard line on the real-name issue because it sees Google+ as an “identity service” or platform on which it can build other products. Schmidt’s comments came during an interview with in response to a question from Andy Carvin , the National Public Radio digital editor who has become a one-man newswire during the Arab Spring revolutions.
It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space.
At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future - NYTimes.com
Rohhh le space elevator !!! T'as vu la vidéo du jap ? by Nov 15