RSSMarissa Mayer on the Pulse of Google Health
By Reshma Kumar at October 19, 2007 9 CommentsAttending the Web 2.0 Summit where Marissa Mayer was one of the speakers. Marissa, VP Search Products & UX, talked about Google Health which she recently assumed the helm of as well, at least temporarily.
She talked about what Google (GOOG) is trying to do with its much anticipated Google Health Platform which is slated to go live in early ‘08. She explained that the healthcare industry generates a petabyte (one quadrillion bytes) of data annually and Google is attempting to digitize, store, organize, and make this data portable and available to people. The service would also allow people to find doctors and integrate with Google Maps for directions. She went on to say that people are already using Google more than any other tool on the Web to find health information.
She stopped short of sharing the interface of the new Google Health platform, screenshots of which were leaked a while back.
On the lighter side, she did a “Top 10 List of Things You Might See From Google Health” such as a paternity search, Viagra spam for Gmail users, and I’m feeling yucky button.
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Mayer is clearly one of the reasons Google rules the web. I’m anxious to see her apply her AI background and Google’s massive parallel processing capabilities to conscious computing. The results from that effort could create the most profound technological developments in in all of human history.
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