May 16, 2007
Live from the Googleplex
9.30am pacific time: Google’s Searchology event is just starting here in Mountain View. It’s a day for the press and analysts to learn about what the agenda describes as the next step in the evolution of search. We’re starting with Search of Days Past from Craig Silverstein, Google’s Technology Director, then Search as We Know It Today, a talk by Ben Gomes, software engineer and Kerry Rodden, senior user experience researcher.
Then it’s Next Step in Evolution of Search - Udi Manber, VP engineering and Marissa Mayer, VP Search products and User Experience, before we get a Q&A and some search demos.
I’ll keep you updated on the morning’s events.
9.45am Eliot Schrage, VP of global communications, kicks off the event. He says the day is all about search – it remains and will always be the heart and soul of Google, he says, we are going to talk about where we’ve been, where we are now and where we are going.
He introduces Craig Silverstein, the first person hired by Larry and Sergey and the “ghost of search engines past.” He was hired while they were still doing it as a research project at Stanford, Sergey’s dorm room was their business and operations centre and Larry’s was where the data centre was located – three loud computers keeping his roommate awake at night.
