Google Press Day 2006 Live Blogging, Part Four
Schmidt says more than half of queries are from outside the U.S., and introduces Omid Kordestani, Adam Freed, Nikesh Arora and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy to talk about global business opportunities.
Omid says Google benefited from having a lot of people internationally who were interested in Google and improving it.
Mostly about how Google wants to expand locally, creating local offices when there is a unique opportunity they wouldn’t get by having those operations run from the U.S.. Someone mentions all the money being made in England. Says in rare cases, an international team will launch a feature ahead of the U.S. ones.
Opens the floor to questions. Turns out Sitemaps was built in Germany, and had to be localized into English.
Google hires computer scientists with backgrounds in AI to develop click fraud detection tools.
They’ve gone to break. When they come back, Jason will be taking over coverage, as I’ll be in a meeting and unable to hear the audio. I’ll probably still be blogging, because I suck at paying attention to people.
Philipp’s coverage of Press Day is spectacular, I might add. I think he’s more of a geek than I am, so he picks up on more than I have. Jason says that InsideGoogle’s coverage will get better when he’s writing. Ass.
