Marissa Mayer

With Zagat Purchase Google Gets A Massive Foothold In Mobile Market

First, Google moved to acquire Motorola Mobility. Yesterday, it bought the crown jewel of restaurant guides, Zagat. Both deals signal huge mobile ambitions for the search giant.READ»

Untangling The Incredibly Complicated, Puzzling World Of Online Privacy

Online privacy is a conundrum that public officials, privacy advocates, and tech companies are all trying to solve. The issue has become so tangled that few even pretend to have an answer for all its complexities. But with the recent Senate introduction of a location-privacy bill, the government's taking a stab at it. Is it the right approach? READ»

Mozilla Chief: Government Alone Can't Solve Online Privacy

"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.READ»

Olympic Gold Medalist, Acclaimed Author: Kids, Here's How You Win Doodle 4 Google 2012

Over 100,000 entries. Millions and millions of votes cast. World-class judges. Five months of fierce competition. At stake: spoils and riches beyond the wildest imagination. A champion will be crowned, a hero born.READ»

Google’s Marissa Mayer Talks Location Strategy

The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences the company's thinking on local products and searching. READ»

Google's Marissa Mayer Reveals Intense New Focus On Products In The Larry Page Era

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. READ»

Google Goes Gaga for Lady Gaga (Who Are We to Complain?)

Google's Musicians@Google production just released an exclusive interview between Lady Gaga (our Most Creative Person in 2010) and Marissa Mayer (among our Most Influential Women in Tech in 2011). Kismet, thy name is ...GaGoogle!?READ»

American Public Sides With Google, Not Government, on Search Neutrality

Should federal authorities be tasked with regulating search results on Google and Bing, or might that amount to a "government takeover" of the Internet?READ»

Adwords Is Dying and Google Knows It (and they are doing something about it)

Adwords accounts for almost all of Google's revenue. The flagship advertising platform is showing no signs of slowing down, but the company is still proactively preparing for "life after Adwords."READ»

Google's Marissa Mayer to Take Over Geo and Local Services

The folks in Mountain View assign their "star general" to the location game.READ»

Google Gets Psychic With Google Instant

Who needs to think when Google can do it for you? That seems to be the premise of Google Instant, a "search enhancement" rolled out by Google this morning.READ»

Google and The New York Times Battle Over Search Neutrality

In competing op-eds published days apart, Google's VP of search product and user experience, Marissa Mayer went head to head with the New York Times editorial board over search neutrality. While it's net neutrality that has ...READ»

Marissa Mayer, VP at Google

Often referred to as Google's "gatekeeper," Marissa Mayer is the company's VP of search product and user experience. Mayer determines which of the company engineers' free-time projects should become Google products.READ»

Google's Marissa Mayer Assaults Designers With Data

The keeper of Google's homepage told an audience of shocked graphic designers that the company trusts user testing data over the intuition of its own designers.READ»

Google's Game Show: All About Facebook?

When Google threw a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last Wednesday, the question that seemed to bedevil the press and analysts gathered was, "Why is Google throwing a party at the Game Developers ...READ»

Google's Lead Designer Doug Bowman Leaves for Twitter, Cites "Paralyzing" Lack of Design Focus

After three years as visual design lead at Google, designer Doug Bowman consumed his last free lunch at the Googleplex on Friday, and the word on the street is that he's heading to Twitter. But why leave Google, with an audience ...READ»

Behind the Scenes: Brin Creates First Google Holiday Logo--from Clip Art

The first Google doodle happened late on a Saturday night in 1999. As Marissa Meyer, Google’s chief experience officer remembers it, she was in the office at 3 a.m., trying to finish up some work before leaving on vacation when ...READ»

Hey, Kids! Doodle 4 Google! Win Prizes!

Any kid who’s ever been intrigued with Google’s playful holiday logo-decorating antics can now get in the act–with the potential for winning lots of loot for the best efforts. Appearing on the Today Show, Marisa Mayer, ...READ»

Women in Tech: The Executives

14 executives who are shaping today's technology.READ»

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The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

In the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these.READ»