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Marissa Mayer’s Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search

Marissa Mayer’s Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search
Today at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google’s Marissa Mayer. Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she’s now the head of consumer products for the company. So what’s she working on? Well, as we’ve all heard, location is a big part of it. “The idea is to push information to people,” Mayer said. Mayer said they’re still thinking about how the UI for all of this should look, but they have some ideas. “We’re trying to build a virtual mirror of the world at all times,” Mayer said. Below, find my live notes of the entire discussion (paraphrased): MA: So, you now have a new job MM: We’re calling it consumer products broadly. MA: Why give up search and do something different? MM: Well I had done it for about 11 years. MA: Let’s talk more about contextual discovery. MM: The idea is to push information to people. MA: Latitude is one of your products. MM: (Laughs) I use it. MA: But you are an avid Foursquare user. MM: I am.

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Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search Charlie Rose, who’s been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the product development cycle at Google as well as the future of search and other key areas of technology. At one point in the interview Rose ask Mayer about Yahoo. Her diplomatic answer – an independent Yahoo is best for the web. Regarding search, she says its a big and growing problem. On social networking, she admits Google’s Orkut has largely fallen flat (other than in Brazil and India). And, oddly enough, she says that one of the goals behind developing Google’s Chrome browser is to “make the web as fast as turning the page in a magazine.” See Charlie’s recent interviews with the MySpace founders, Reid Hoffman, Larry Lessig and Marc Andreessen. Marissa Mayer: Thank you.

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