Attending 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 More»

Labels: Marissa Mayer, user experience

Reports are that Marissa Mayer, (NASDAQ: GOOG) will head up Google Health from Adam Bosworth. Bosworth , is on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that. Google is moving forward with work on our health products.
Earlier this year Microsoft enter the health search arena via the acquisition of MedStory.
Physicians are increasingly turning to search engines for answers and this is expected to increase with the growth of Tele-Medicine.
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Labels: Marissa Mayer, Vertical Search

Those who missed Marissa Mayer’s Keynote at SES can listen to her Keynote at Searchnomics which is identical to the one she did with Danny Sullivan.

Marissa Mayer at Searchnomics delivering her keynote. Her keynote at Searchnomics was one of the best keynotes ever and I have seen many.
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Labels: Marissa Mayer, Search, Searchnomics

Google’s Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience, officially announced yesterday at the Searchnomics 2007 Conference the launch of Google Gadget Ventures. Members of the press including ABC7 News were on hand to get the breaking news scoop. Marissa introduced the program during her closing Keynote address. If you are familiar with the personalized Google homepage, iGoogle, where users can add widgets/gadgets created by others or better yet create your own personalized gadgets, then this program is a spinoff of this. If your More»

Labels: iGoogle, Marissa Mayer, personalization, Searchnomics