Video Of Google’s Sergey Brin At Web 2.0

Oct 26, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, made a surprise visit at the Web 2.0 Summit last week. The video of his 18 minute interview with John Battelle is now available on YouTube. Here it is: In summary, he talked about his thoughts on Twitter's deal, Google's Social Search, also a little bit about Bing and even Yahoo giving up on search. He actually touches on about a couple dozen topics within this short interview. Here are some quotes from Brin's talk that I thought I pull out: Battelle asked Brin, what do you make of Bing? Brin said, "Ummm…" Then Battelle asked, are you a Bin [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Employees, Top News

Google’s Matt Cutts, Cuts His Hair

Oct 21, 2009 at 6:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Matt Cutts, known as Google's search spam tsar, recently had a hair cut. Many people from the search industry noticed Matt's new hair cut at recent search conferences. In short, Matt lost a bet about a release date of one of Google's products and as a consequence, had to shave the hair off his head. Brian White, from the team Matt works on at Google, tweeted a link to a video of the actual hair cut. Yes, they made a pretty fun video showing off the hair cut process for all SEOs and search folks to enjoy in the industry. Here is the video: [...]

Filed in: Google: Employees, SEM Industry: Community, SEM Industry: General

Google Execs Among The Very Richest

Oct 1, 2009 at 9:19am ET by Greg Sterling

Forbes has published its annual list of who has the most money in America and Google's co-founders and CEO Eric Schmidt are among the very richest of the lot. At the top is perpetual leader Bill Gates. Among the top 100 roughly 10 percent made their money from tech or the Internet. However four of the top 11 (Google's co-founders are tied at 10/11) are tech entrepreneurs. Here's the top 25: Eric Schmidt shows up at number 40. If you're feeling envy, remember what your grandmother said, "Money can buy a lot of things but it can't buy you love or happiness." Then there's "if you've got [...]

Filed in: Google: Employees

Shashi Seth, Another Ex-Googler, Lands At AOL

Sep 29, 2009 at 4:16pm ET by Matt McGee

AOL announced today that it's hired former Google employee Shashi Seth as its Senior VP of Global Advertising Products. While with Google, Seth was head of monetization for YouTube. Most recently he was the Chief Revenue Officer for Cooliris. AOL's addition of Seth is the latest in a series of hirings from the search industry -- and Google in particular -- going back to March when Tim Armstrong left Google to become AOL's Chairman and CEO. Armstrong was one of Google's longest serving executives, and AOL credited him for helping to "build one of the most successful media teams in the histor [...]

Filed in: AOL: General, Google: Employees

Yahoo Search Engineers, Google Wants To Hire You

Sep 16, 2009 at 9:14am ET by Barry Schwartz

Matt Cutts of Google has blogged that Google is willing to hire Yahoo Search engineers. Matt said, "if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience in search, Google is hiring." Clearly, since the Microsoft & Yahoo deal, engineers at Yahoo might be a bit concerned about their job stability. Ask.com ran a funny poaching campaign recently to pick up Yahoo engineers. Microsoft said many Yahoo engineers will move over to Microsoft if the deal is approved. And now Google is hiring Yahoo engineers. So if you are a Yahoo engineer and you want to apply for a job at Google, us [...]

Filed in: Google: Employees, Yahoo: Employees

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