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Web 2.0 Summit 09:  Marissa Mayer (video)
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Web 2.0 Summit: Google Unveils Social Search
informationweek.com — In a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit , Google VP of search products and user... experience Marissa Mayer revealed an upcoming Google product called Social Search. "We've been thinking about social networks for a long time," said Mayer, ... (more) Web 2.0 Summit: Google Unveils Social Search
RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer/The Official Google Blog)
techmeme.com — Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog : RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!...   —  At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world.  In the past few years, an ... (more) RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! ...
Web 2.0 Summit 09:  "Discussion: Whither Journalism?" (video)
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Web 2.0 Summit 09: "Discussion: Whither Journalism?" (video)
youtube.com — John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), Martin Nisenholtz (The New York Times Company), Marissa Mayer (Google), Eric Hippeau... (The Huffington Post), Rober... (more) Web 2.0 Summit 09: "Discussion: Whither ...
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Web 2.0 Video: Google's Mayer Shows Off 'Social Search'
paidContent — Coming next to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search: A “social search” feature, which plays up content written by friends when users make a query on the search engine. The feature identifies a searchers’ social connections by analyzing their Gmail contacts and their Google profile. At the Web 2.0 conference, Google VP Marissa Mayer (pictured) announced that the company would include real-time Tweets in its search results—and also demonstrated the “social search” feature, which will launch in the next few weeks in Google Labs. A reader asked for a video of the demo—and here it is, after the ...

Google's Twitter Announcement At Web 2
John Battelle's Searchblog — More on this soon...

Video: Demo of Google's Social Search Project
Search Engine Roundtable — You heard about the Twitter news from Bing and Google but did you see the video demo from Google's Marissa Mayer on how Google will handle searches within the social network of an individual? If Google knows who your friends and family are, they can make image search, product search, web search, much more personalized. Want to see how? Check out this video of Google's Social Search labs project that hopefully will launch in the next couple of weeks. For many, handing over such data to Google can seriously improve the 'relevancy' of many of their search queries. But those worried about privacy should realize that for Google to get this information, you probably ...

Google Social Search
Google Operating System — Last week, Marissa Mayer announced at the Web 2.0 Summit a new experimental feature that will improve search results with web pages created by your social connections. "Due to the ever-increasing popularity of social networks, we've been thinking about how your social network could influence and improve your search results. Social Search does just that by surfacing content in your search results that is written by your friends or people you follow. That way, you get the best resources from the web overall, plus the best results (blogs, reviews, travelogues) that are relevant to you, since they were written by people you know. Social Search will be ...

Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs
ReadWriteWeb — Social Search just went live in Google Labs. Google announced that it was working on this Social Search feature at the Web 2.0 Summit last week, but at that time, Google's Marissa Mayer announced that it would only be available "in a few weeks." Social Search taps into a user's social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user's own social network have shared at the bottom of the default search results page. According to Google, Social Search will enhance the search experience on Google by providing users with more personally relevant search results. Sponsor To ...

Google Social Search launched under Google Labs
D' Technology Weblog — Google rolled out a new experimental Google Labs feature called ‘Google Social Search’ that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle. With Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at bottom of your search results page under the heading "Results from people in your social circle for [you search query]." You can also filter your search results to see only content from your social circle by clicking "Show options" on the results page and clicking "Social", announced ...

7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!
Search Engine Journal — Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big announcements, app updates, more Super Heroes and the usual collection of gratuitous goodiness that is the world of search. I hope things are going well for you…. Let’s get on with the show! Lead Story Google Analytics? WTF? Is probably what you’re asking right about now as far as our TOP story of the week is concerned. Yes, Bing and Google made announcements about Twitter integration. Yes, Google also broke a story about ...

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Dialogg: Marissa Mayer
digg.com 7/25/2009 — The question period has ended for Marissa Mayer , and you’ve voted on the top questions! Digg Dialogg lets you submit your questions to notable leaders and luminaries. Rather than editors or journalists, the Digg community decides the most popular ...
Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview
techcrunch.com 12/11/2008 — The video above shows twenty two minutes of my and Loic Le Meur’s half hour interview with Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer at the Le Web conference in Paris on Wednesday afternoon. A spotty ...
John Mayer Releases Augmented Reality Music Video
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Discrimination: How many black friends does Marissa Mayer have? Let's count!
valleywag.gawker.com 3/24/2009 — Lily-white couture aficionado Marissa Mayer is a champion of her gender at Google, struggling to ensure that 25 percent of its engineers are women . How is she doing on other measures of diversity? Google has come under fire from Congress for ...
You will learn to love Google's sorry music widgetThe Register 10/22/2009
Facebook's along for the fail, too Hyped overnight as a Google 'Music Service', what we see instead is set to be the most underwhelming launch in a long history of label-backed music flops. It's barely a 'service' - merely a sorry widget that yokes ...
Social Search from Google and Bing: My 8 Big ConcernsToday @ PC World 10/22/2009
The ability to search Facebook and Twitter from Bing or Google could change the way we use search engines and social networks. Is that a good thing?
Web 2.0 Summit: The Browser Is What MattersInformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 10/22/2009
Google's Sundar Pichai provides some hints about his company's upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system.
Brin: Yahoo shouldn't abandon searchCNET News.com 10/22/2009
In a surprise talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that he welcomes new competition in the search sector and is disappointed that Yahoo's backing off.
Sergey Brin laments Yahoo's Microsoft search dealLatest from Computerworld 10/22/2009
Google cofounder and President of Technology Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, answering a variety of questions on hot-button issues affecting the search company.