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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search
Products & User Experience

Did you notice the chrome tulips on Google's homepage today?
They are part of a special Google doodle done by renowned artist
Jeff Koons. And that isn't the only art appearing anew on
Google today. As part of our iGoogle Artists project, we have
collaborated with almost 70 artists in 17 countries on 6 continents
to create special iGoogle themes — works of art that appeal to all
ages and interests. Artists, designers and other notables involved
include Jeff Koons, Dale Chihuly, Coldplay, Diane von Furstenberg,
Dolce & Gabbana, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Michael Graves, Philippe
Starck, Robert Mankoff, Mark Morris, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Geddes
and Tory Burch. While the list of those who have contributed themes
is impressive (I've only listed 1/5th(!) of the artists here),
even more impressive is the art itself — it's spectacularly
beautiful!

Until now, iGoogle has been about getting the content you want on
your homepage. The iGoogle artist themes take personalization to
the next level — allowing you to select world-class art that
really reflects your personality for your pages. It's what
happens when great art meets technology.

As part of our launch, we will be holding an outdoor art gallery
this weekend in New York's Meatpacking District, where on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights the art from the iGoogle
artists project will be projected on the buildings, sidewalks, and
streets. This is a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=9th Ave & Little West 12th St, New York, NY 10014&sll=40.73962,-74.00633&sspn=0.00708,0.016619&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr" >
map of where you can find the display. We will post video of
the event on YouTube.

Check it
out. The art speaks for itself. Select your iGoogle artist
theme today at href="http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/" >www.google.com/artistthemes!

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search
& User Products

It's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/pilot-with-cleveland-clinic-for-health.html"
id="jw56" >announced our partnership and pilot with the
Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the href="http://www.himssconference.org/"
id="nka:" >HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric Schmidt gave
the closing keynote. Eric's keynote marks the first time
we've talked publicly about the product we've been
designing and building. His talk also offered a deeper view into
our overall health strategy. ( href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZKNcx9sBA" >Watch the
video.)

Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our
overall mission of organizing patient information and making it
accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will
be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical
records online.

For the healthcare industry, online personal health records (PHRs)
aren't a new idea and, in some cases, online PHRs already exist
for patients. Here's what we think sets Google Health
apart:

Privacy and Security -
Due to the sensitive and personal nature of the data that will be
stored in Google Health, we need to conduct our health service with
the same privacy, security, and integrity users have come to expect
in all our services. Google Health will protect the privacy of your
health information by giving you complete control over your data.
We won't sell or share your data without your explicit
permission. Our privacy policy and practices have been developed in
thoughtful collaboration with experts from the

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-advisory-group-on-health.html"
id="fdm7" >Google Health Advisory Council.

Platform - One of the
most exciting and innovative parts of Google Health is our platform
strategy. We're assembling a directory of third-party services
that interoperate with Google Health. Right now, this means
you'll be able to automatically import information such as your
doctors' records, your prescription history, and your test
results into Google Health in order to easily access and and
control your data. Later, this platform strategy will mean that you
will be able to interact with services and tools easily, and will
be able to do things like schedule appointments, refill
prescriptions, and start using new wellness tools.

Portability - Our
Internet presence ultimately means that through Google Health, you
will be able to have access and control over your health data from
anywhere. Through the Cleveland Clinic pilot, we have already found
great use-cases in which, for example, people spend 6 months of the
year in Ohio, and 6 months of the year in Florida or Arizona, and
will now be able to move their health data between their various
health providers seamlessly and with total control. Previously,
this would have required carrying paper records back and forth.
With Google Health, the user can simply import the data from each
medical facility and then choose to share it with the other
facilities. It's advances in data portability like this that we
think can really make a difference in the quality of healthcare.
The clearer and more comprehensive the information regarding your
health becomes, the better your care will be.

User focus - We
aren't doctors or healthcare experts, but one thing Google can
create is a clean, easy-to-use user experience that makes managing
your health information straightforward and easy. We're still
iterating and testing our user interface, but here is what the
welcome screen looks like:

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Mario Sixtus is opposite to be on DLD congress recently of Google vice-president Marissa Mayer cover a demand a few Input (see earlier the log before) . This video can see in German Elektrischer Reporter now, and Siggi Becker has a copy. The question that Mario asks has:

Why does Google buy next YouTube? Rely on advertisement to regard only income as origin only won’t too take a risk? Google released many product, what is so basic strategy? When does Google operating system come? (the operating system that what they talk about is a tradition, not be network operating system. ) won’t have the problem that privacy counterpoises when can Google cross service ground to make user news? The word of quote Marissa: The word of quote Marissa:: We are not associated the information that steps a service, this also is decided by our privacy policy place. ” whether is Google being become like Microsoft in that way rig business? Can the network application of Google become the competitor of MS Office? [WMV] Marissa says: “I think in some way of these two product line has jackknife, but our target dispute often differs. ” (look, there is a monkey of 3 heads at the back of you! ) Google is developed a powerful artificial intelligence 2020? Is Google China does content to examine a mistake? [WMV]

[Thanks Siggi, mario&Mischa! Elektrischer Report Is Creative Commons Licensed, as Is This Post&Its Videos. Its Videos..

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of
Consumer Web Products

If you do a Google search on the word [ href="http://www.google.com/search?q=failure" >failure] or the
phrase [ href="http://www.google.com/search?q=miserable failure" >miserable
failure], the top result is currently the White House’s
official biographical page for President Bush. We've received
some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a
political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these
results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google's search results are generated by computer programs that
rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative
popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice
called href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=googlebombing&btnG=Search" >
googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally
produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the
phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to
President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of
searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of
googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the
integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to
alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from
showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they
don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose
objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search
Products & User Experience

Back in 2001, Eric asked for a brainstorm of a few
"splashy" ideas in search. A designer and product manager
at the time, I made a few mockups — one of which was for
'universal search.' It was a sample search results page for
Britney Spears that, in addition to web results, also had news,
images, and groups results right on the same page. Even then, we
could see that people could easily become overwhelmed with the
number of different search tools available on Google — let alone
those that would be created over the next few years. This
proliferation of tools, while useful, has outgrown the old model of
search. We want to help you find the very best answer, even if you
don't know where to look.

That mockup and early observations were the motivation behind the
universal search effort we announced earlier today. And while that
Britney Spears mockup was the start of Google's universal
search vision, it was instantly obvious that this would be one of
the biggest architectural, ranking, and interface challenges we
would face at Google. Over several years, with the help of more
than 100 people, we've built the infrastructure, search
algorithms, and presentation mechanisms to provide what we see as
just the first step in the evolution toward universal search.
Today, we're making that first step available on google.com by
launching the new architecture and using it to blend content from
Images, Maps, Books, Video, and News into our web results.

With universal search, we're attempting to break down the walls
that traditionally separated our various search properties and
integrate the vast amounts of information available into one simple
set of search results.

Here are a few of my favorite searches that show off the power of
universal search:

href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= steve jobs&btnG=Search">
steve jobs

href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=darth vader&btnG=Search">
darth vader

href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nosferatu&btnG=Search">
nosferatu

In addition, we've rolled out a few new navigation elements and
experimental features to help our users better navigate our site
and find the information they're looking for. These include
contextual navigation links above the search results that help
users "drill down" to specific types of information. For
instance, developers who search for [ href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=python&btnG=Search">
python] will see links for "web," "blogs,"
"books," "groups," and "code,"
whereas [ href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=downtown los angeles&btnG=Search">
downtown los angeles] will show a different set of links. Also,
in terms of integration and navigation, today we introduced a new
universal navigation bar at the top of all Google web pages to
provide easier navigation to your favorite Google products, such as
Gmail.

While today's releases are big steps in making the world's
information more easily accessible, these are just the beginning
steps toward the universal search vision. Stay tuned!

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