Marissa Mayer: Twitter is Complementary to Google [Video]

 

 

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Marissa Mayer: Twitter is Complementary to Google [Video]

via Mashable! by Pete Cashmore on 7/31/09

Marissa Mayer, Google's VP Search Products & User Experience, took fairly direct questions in the most recent edition of Digg Dialogg, the interviews series from social news site Digg. Topics include the upcoming launch of Google Wave, how Google feels about Microsoft Bing and Wolfram Alpha, and the biggest threats to Google's survival ("complacency", says Mayer).

On Twitter, Mayer makes a calculated response: "Things show up there first. And so we definitely think that including that in the world's information, hopefully being able to search that and surface that for our users, with all those realtime updates coming in, is something that could complement our search engine for those types of queries."

Of course, Google can't make full use of the linking data contained in Tweets, since those links use the "nofollow" attribute…for now.

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Reviews: Digg, Google, Google Wave

Tags: Google, marissa mayer, twitter

 

 

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