I just got back from a PARC open forum, in which Marissa Mayer gave a talk about the Physics of Data, and Innovation at Google. All in all, it was fine. Maybe a third of the talk was about new possibilities enabled by large quantities of data (Google Flu Trends, better search, etc.) The other two-thirds were dedicated to introducing the audience to some longer-tail Google products that many folks might not have known about. So I’m not going to go into detail about the talk as a whole, but I will point out two tidbits that were the most interesting to me. One is positive, one is negative. Continue reading…
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