Nov-06-2009A Berkeley Alum at MIT: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Stops By
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CONTENTS:- Vinter said it'''s important to retain the '''start-up''' feel of the office even as it grows quickly in the coming months. (More...)
- HELP WANTED: Google searching for new workers to add to its Cambridge office - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise Your browser either has JavaScript disabled, or does not support it. (More...)
- I think from a standpoint of Google Wave, I think they are trying to do too many things at the same time. (More...)
- During his swing through Cambridge this week, Eric Schmidt sat down with "On Point" host Tom Ashbrook for an on-stage interview at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. (More...)
- Making Chrome work fast, maintaining a clean separation between applications running in different tabs or windows, and supporting the new HTML 5 standard "are central to making the apps model work," Schmidt said. (More...)
- The hiring has been particularly fast and furious at the Internet search giant, which has grown to more than 19,600 employees world-wide. (More...)
- The problem with being laid off in Silicon Valley is if you are laid off for a few years, which would be terrible, during that time, the technology moves forward, so you have to keep yourself current. (More...)
SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTVinter said it'''s important to retain the '''start-up''' feel of the office even as it grows quickly in the coming months. Vinter was joined at the media roundtable discussion by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who talked about the reasons he likes having an office in the Boston area. He cited the area'''s numerous universities as one of the biggest benefits for a tech company looking to hire talented workers. Schmidt said he sees no substantial differences in the culture and talent of the Boston area'''s work force compared with Google'''s home base in Silicon Valley.
[1] Vinter was joined in a press conference at the company's Cambridge office by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
[2] "We like the vibe and the feeling of Cambridge," Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a group of reporters as part of an informal discussion at the company's Kendall Square offices yesterday. Since establishing its Bay State beachhead in 2005, the Cambridge office has expanded from two engineers and a few advertising salespeople, to today's 200 staffers.
[3] For all the
bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that
Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers, and print. He took questions from reporters this afternoon at Google's offices in Cambridge, and I asked him, among other things, why Google News had recently begun attaching a "(blog)" label to some news sources ''' a move I
criticized last month.
[4] As Seward points out, Schmidt is wrong about the way Google News categorizes. As best I can tell, Google basically lumps all blogs, including this one, which I like to think of as reasonably professional, in its "blog" category. No, despite her
occasional appearances on this site, Kara Swisher's mother is not an editor here. Anyway, the real question for me isn't "how does Google refer to my work in its search results?" but "how does Google determine where to put my my work in its search results?" Schmidt and company can call it whatever they wantjust send those eyeballs my way.
[5] Don't repeat everything. As some news organizations begin charging for digital content, I wondered, how is Google positioned to aid or take advantage of those moves? I mentioned the company's
proposal to power micropayments for news sites with Google Checkout. Schmidt: The first question: What percentage of news organizations will charge for content? And it's entirely their decision. If they do so, then we want to make sure that we have products that they can use to help them charge.
[4] Eric Schmidt appeared on Fox Business Network tonight for an extensive interview with host Neil Cavuto, who pressed the Google CEO a couple times over whether the company has the potential to become the next Microsoft when it comes to antitrust issues and its attempts to fend off new Internet rivals. "Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened to them," Schmidt says just before the 3:00 minute mark in the video above.
[6] Google CEO Eric Schmidt says his firm hopes to avoid making the same mistakes as rival companies such as IBM and Microsoft. When asked about IBM and Microsoft during an appearance on the Fox Business Network, Schmidt said: '''The companies that you mentioned made mistakes years ago that hopefully we'''re not making, and hopefully the mistakes we'''re making now won'''t put us in those kinds of predicaments.''' Though he did not elaborate on the '''mistakes''' made by the rival technology giants, he mentioned a number of principles, which he claims differentiates Google from Microsoft and others. These include Google's "sensitivity toward end users", its "focus on consumers" and its commitment to letting people "get out and take their information with them". Taken together, these principles are a '''much better model for the information age than these older models,''' says Schmidt. His implication is that Microsoft'''s approach is less suited to today'''s market than Google'''s open model. Microsoft has historically made money by bundling its Windows operating system on home and business PCs, and has faced criticism for employing restrictive tactics to maintain consumer loyalty.
[7] Google CEO Eric Schmidt while appearing on Fox Business made some interesting comments about Google's emergence as a huge Microsoft-like business power. I thought most interesting was Schmidt's statement about Google becoming like Microsoft, "Hopefully, we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsot made ten years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened with them".
[8] It's always interesting to see Google CEO Eric Schmidt talk about the Google Empire. It's no different this time when Schmidt goes one-on-one with Fox New Channel's Neil Cavuto on topics such as Android distribution, using Microsoft as a model to not mess up, and perhaps most interestingly, privacy concerns.
[9] Last month,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in town ; yesterday it was Google CEO Eric Schmidt. To mark the unusual occasion, Google invited a raft of journalists to its offices in Cambridge for an open, on-the-record roundtable discussion with Schmidt.
[10] Steve Vinter, engineering director of
Google Boston, said today that the company's local operation will be "growing very rapidly in the next few months." Vinter made his comments while introducing Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who was at the company's Cambridge office to speak to about two dozen journalists.
[11] Google also has an advertising sales team based in the Cambridge office. Asked for specifics about what projects will be growing, Vinter said Google would be hiring on both the advertising sales side and the engineering side. "It's virtually the case that every project we have is scaling up," Vinter said. In the wide-ranging discussion that followed, Schmidt discussed the economy, which he sees pulling out of the recession, and Google initiatives like the Android mobile phone operating system, and the communications and collaboration program Google Wave, which is currently in limited preview but, Schmidt said, is "getting ready for a much broader distribution."
[11] Google is growing fast in Cambridge. Vinter said Google's Cambridge office, which handles a variety of projects from Google Friend Connect to Google Book Search, has passed the 200-employee mark and will be "hiring very aggressively" in the coming months. (That's in stark contrast to Microsoft, which reduced its headcount yesterday by some 800 people, including
some here in Cambridge.)
[10] You've got the Marriott around the corner." The company's Kendall Square office has produced such Google products as
Google Friend Connect, book search and image search and several infrastructure projects. Google has been at its Five Cambridge Center location for 18 months, but has been in the Boston area for the past four years.
[2] Schmidt said information technology companies will play a key role in pulling the U.S. economy out of the recession. He also suggested other industries in which the U.S. dominates or should dominate on a worldwide scale: biotechnology, '''clean tech''' firms such as those tied to renewable energy, and advanced manufacturers of high-tech materials, nanotechnlogy and electronics. All those sectors are key parts of the Massachusetts economy. Google has had a presence in the Boston area for at least six years, and it moved into its roughly 60,000-square-foot office in Kendall Square in early 2008.
[1] Schmidt was all praise for MIT and President Hockfield's leadership. When asked why they had chosen to place Google Boston in the heart of Kendall Square, he replied, "We like cities with extremely good technical universities, if you get my drift." In describing his vision for science in the next decade, Schmidt cited the need for increased research in three areas: biotech, clean tech, and advanced manufacturing. Given the current abundance of "problems," Schmidt urged the future generation to strive to become leaders in these three areas. His appreciation for MIT's dedication to the sciences was not only limited to the work presently being conducted. "Big projects are happening at MIT we need leaders in these sciences and MIT is one of the industries that has been doing a brilliant job in this area."
[12] Schmidt, noting that the biotech revolution occurred within a mile from Google's Cambridge office, was bullish on prospects for growth in information technology and other advanced fields in Massachusetts. He said that America should focus economic leadership in four areas: IT, biotech, clean tech, and advanced manufacturing, such as nanotech, electronics, batteries, and material science.
[11] The company now has about 200 employees in Cambridge. "It's virtually the case that every project we have is scaling up,'' he said. In a wide-ranging discussion that followed, Schmidt said he believes the economy is recovering. He also talked about the company's Android mobile phone operating system, and its communications and collaboration program, Google Wave, which is currently in limited preview but "getting ready for a much broader distribution.'' Schmidt said he is optimistic about prospects for growth in information technology and other advanced fields in Massachusetts. He said the United States should focus economic leadership in four areas: information technology, biotechnology, clean technology, and advanced manufacturing, such as nanotech, electronics, and batteries.
[13] Google's Cambridge site director Steve Vinter served as moderator. Many of the questions tossed Schmidt's way focused on specific Google projects such as Chrome, Wave, and Android 2.0, and when they'll evolve into major consumer-facing offerings.
[10] Schmidt appears to have a lot of sympathy for newspapers and magazines. He argued that they offered value in the production of content but less so in its distribution. Schmidt pointed out that thanks to the Internet, people will stop subscribing to newspapers since they can get their content online for free. Thanks to online advertising, which offers a more measurable return on investment, newspapers are losing what had been their biggest source of revenue. Someone asked him what would happen to investigative reporting, which had in the past been supported by advertising. To that, Schmidt did not have an answer -- although he said Google did not have plans to simply write checks to the newspapers to help finance it. He vaguely suggested that Google was working with newspapers on a way that they could both make money. When asked whether he was afraid of Microsoft (
MSFT ) CEO Steve Ballmer or Microsoft's' efforts in search, Schmidt declined to comment. All he would say is that he was more afraid of Google not using its strengths to keep providing more value to consumers. To connect Hammer -- who weaved biblical stories into his speeches -- to Google, Dan Bricklin, who co-invented -- VisiCalc -- the first electronic spreadsheet asked Schmidt whether Google had a spritual side. Schmidt said that Google tries to make decisions based on its values -- so it takes consumer privacy and security issues very seriously.
[14] The crux of that problem is taking words that are entered into the search box, deciphering the meaning, and producing relevant search results. To compound this problem, Twitter'''s real-time output of statuses and the rankings of these statuses pose many algorithmic challenges. Schmidt assured those present that even though Google has not mastered all the mechanics of indexing this type of content, there are '''lots of new improvements coming along.'''
[15] Net: the facility to consume more information quickly will create more time for content we learn from and actively participate with. The implication of all this is that packaging and brand marketing are going to be much more critical to the future of media. I did a post called 2020 this week
http://bit.ly/4xMi2L that imagines what the media marketplace will look like when, media programming companies, ranging from Disney to Harpo to Time to McClatchy, buy content, technology, package them and market them as brands. This interview is another proof that Google is well prepared to become a newspaper on its own. With more and more newspapers dying and more and more journalists dismissed and eager to produce news in their blogs, you can imagine what will happen a news (market) metamorphosis will take place. I think that one of the reasons Google probably decided to add a "blog" label to their news stream is not to say that blogs are less legitimate but to protect themselves from accusations that they are reporting opinions as news. By adding a "blog" label they simplify things so they don't have to label it "editorial" which is essentially the role many blogs play.
[4] At the time, I thought Google might be throwing a bone to newspaper companies that
don’t like being lumped with amateur news sources. While I'm sure the new label was not important enough to reach Schmidt's desk, his framing of that distinction ''' "the infrastructure around the writer" ''' is an interesting one.
[4] Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business News today that the "recession is behind us" and that technology is in recovery.
[16] Google's CEO Eric Schmidt sat down on Thursday evening at the MIT in Boston, one topic that came up in the discussion with the audience was the future of news.
[4] Google (
GOOG ) CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at MIT this afternoon. He had some interesting things to say about the company's place in the world -- and how Google can continue to follow its golden rule, "
Don't be evil."
[14] Reuters Google CEO Eric Schmidt cites the weather as a reason young people flock to the Bay Area.
[17] Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has snapped up Bay Area talent for years, first as an executive at Sun Microsystems Inc., then as CEO of computer maker Novell Inc. and now as the 54-year-old boss at Google.
[17] "Google News strives to provide you with access to as many sources of news and perspectives on current events as possible. Many users have asked us to let them know when they're clicking on a blog article in Google News. To satisfy this request, articles published in a blog format appear with a (blog) tag next to the publication name. (We add similar tags to video, press release, satire, and subscription content.) "Blogs typically identify themselves as such, and adhere to standard blog formatting by displaying regular entries in order from newest to oldest. Websites that organize their articles in a more editorial fashion and employ a complex layout are generally not considered blogs.
[5] Google News now asking publishers to self-identify content published on a blog.
[4] You know, an editor that's not your mom. For what it's worth, not the distinction Google News is making: The "(blog)" label is supposed to be attached to any news published with blogging software.
[4] Google News very recently added a label for blogs, to differentiate from non-blogs. It seemed weird in 2009 to make that distinction.
[4] While some blogs are making a reputable name for themselves others have absolutely no guarantee of truth and no desire to provide one. By labeling all blogs google can claim innocence if one of the blogs they source says something untrue. After seeing the changes in the 40 years since I entered the professional of journalism I can see the following scenario in the not-distant future: newspapers running streams of news on-line with different entry levels for the different requirements of readers (a) those who follow news regularly, (b) the occasional/casual reader who is tickled by some sudden development, (c) the indifferent reader who wants sometimes to know where he is living.
[4] Schmidt suggested that with the right kinds of technology, the U.S. could be energy independent in about 20 years. It was in the area of Google's disruption of the advertising business that he had to defend it from charges of evil. As he said, there is little danger that Google, which has $22 billion in sales, will be monopolizing advertising since it does not plan to be a $1 trillion revenue company (that's his estimate of the size of the advertising market).
[14] By the end of the event, I found myself wishing that someone with a deeper background in management, innovation, and corporate culture had been chosen to interview Schmidt, to really get at what is so novel about the way Google works as a company (and what challenges it really faces.) Clay Christensen from Harvard Business School would've been perfect -- he appeared in a video tribute to Hammer that was shown -- or Michael Cusumano of MIT. I do enjoy Ashbrook's show on WBUR, but he wasn't the right guy for this particular job.
[18] The new employees would work on a wide range of projects under way in Cambridge, including work on the Google Books and Google Images search services and Google'''s Friend Connect social networking service.
[1] As the salespeople sell ads to area businesses, the engineers work on Google's varied projects - from online service Friend Connect to Google Books - designed to increase online access to information.
[3] Google's Boston-based projects include the social networking service Friend Connect, Book Search, and a large number of infrastructure projects, which "don't get a lot of attention because users don't see them," Vinter said.
[11] "Virtually every project we have is scaling up," Vinter said. Schmidt (who attended both Princeton and Berkeley) said Google was attracted to Cambridge in the first place because it "likes cities with extremely good technical universities."
[10] The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., also has an advertising sales team working out of Cambridge. Asked what projects will be expanded here or how many jobs might be added, Vinter said Google would make hires in advertising sales and engineering, but he did not give any numbers.
[13] Company to grow in Cambridge Boston Globe Steve Vinter, engineering director of Google Boston, said yesterday that Google's Cambridge operation will be "growing very rapidly in the next few months.''
[13] "We're over 200 people and we're actually going to grow aggressively in the coming months," said Steve Vinter, Google Boston's site director, who added the company will be hiring sales and engineering staff.
[2] Schmidt said that when it comes to sales and service, the "Boston office is one of the top infrastructure sites that Google has."
[3] On Wednesday afternoon, Schmidt visited the Google Boston office to '''check it out''' and answer a wide range of questions from 25 media personnel, which included reporters from The Wall Stre e t Journal, The Boston Globe, the Associated Press, as well as The Tech.
[15] Ashbrook tried to conduct a wide-ranging interview with Schmidt, talking about everything from Google's book search project to the business problems of traditional media to Google's vast data centers. Ashbrook didn't get much from Schmidt other that his stock public-company-CEO responses: turns out that while Android is great, iPhone is the dominant smartphone today.
[18] Fox Business' Neil Cavuto asked Schmidt in reference to Google's
new Dashboard product how we really knew if Google deleted our personal data when we pressed delete via Dashboard.
[8] I also asked Schmidt about the concept of a "hyperpersonalized news stream,"
coined by Google VP
Marissa Mayer to describe a customized flow of information from a broad range of news sources.
[4] "We like cities," said Schmidt when asked what made Google choose Cambridge. "It's one of the top infrastructure sites Google has.
[2] Asked by an audience member about how Google thinks about competing with Microsoft, and whether Schmidt is a little bit scared of Steve Ballmer, Schmidt said, "We at Google don't really focus on our competitors.
[18] Earlier this week, while talking to press in Boston when Schmidt was asked to comment on a statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer,
he said, "I'''ve learned not to respond to quotes by Steve Ballmer."
[19] The total of 800 job cuts across all operations is on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan announced in January. Schmidt said Boston fits into Google's profile and needs. "We like cities," he said, "especially cities with extremely good technical universities."
[3] I was surprised about the number of questions from the MIT audience about Google's ethical place in the universe. Schmidt argued that since Google operates big server farms next to dams, that is was getting a huge amount of its electricity from renewable sources. That sounds good to me.
[14] Wow. Schmidt has a wry sense of humor, but his dominant mode is that of the ultra-logical Vulcan engineer: every problem (or answer to a probing question) can be deconstructed and solved if you are smart enough. (In the pic, Schmidt is at center talking after the event with Rich Miner, the Cambridge exec who runs Google Ventures and helped develop the Android operating system for mobile phones.)
[18] Schmidt was interviewed by Tom Ashbrook, who hosts the National Public Radio program "On Point." Schmidt fielded questions about whether Google was in trouble for monopolizing advertising; whether it threatened the survival of the iPhone; what it would do to stay true to its famous 'do no evil' dictum; how it could operate so many computers without damaging the environment; and the future of investigative journalism.
[14] Until
Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt walked through the doors to the room.
[12] Below are some of the high points from the discussionincluding Schmidt's thoughts on strategies for economic recovery, why people fear Google, and what role the company may play in the survival of journalism.
[10] Defending Google'''s wide reach, Schmidt said, '''Google is all about helping people in scale.
[15] It'''s sometimes hard to distinguish because many people in the traditional news are also bloggers. Me: Or they use a blog platform. Schmidt: Or they use a blog platform.
[5] Posed with that question during a Boston news conference yesterday, Schmidt did use the opportunity to expound on the difference between pro bloggers and amateur ones. Or at least, his vision of the difference.
[5] Business, life sciences, and technology news ''' covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, and beyond.
[10] Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston." Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward.
Here's some on how Scott decides what to cover, and how to pitch him a story idea.
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HELP WANTED: Google searching for new workers to add to its Cambridge office - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise Your browser either has JavaScript disabled, or does not support it. [1] Google Inc. plans to aggressively expand its Cambridge staff in the face of a stark downturn in the local labor market. The Mountain View, Calif. -based tech giant is looking to add a number of software engineers, sales reps and support staffers to its office in Cambridge within the next year. The company currently employs about 200 workers at its Kendall Square office, and is currently looking to fill at least eight openings.
[1] Steve Vinter, engineering director at the Cambridge office, declined to provide a target for how many jobs Google wants to add locally.
[1] Google's common area and cafeteria feature a play corner during an open house and tour of the Google offices at 5 Cambridge Center in Kendal Square, Cambridge.
[2] Google looking to grow in Cambridge's Kendall Square - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle Your browser either has JavaScript disabled, or does not support it.
[2] I think from a standpoint of Google Wave, I think they are trying to do too many things at the same time. I for one would have like a more staggered introduction to the wave, perhaps through their existing products such as the Chat and Email. I am pretty sure eventually Google Wave would become simple enough and prove its true value. It would take a lot of time if reasonably, if not totally competent folks like me have a tough time coming to grips with it.
[20] There is a lot of behavior modification that has to go hand-in-hand with Google Wave, and that sort of thing take a lot of time.
[20] We want to see if it will scale." Maybe when more people are using it, there is a good chance someone will figure it out and explain to me how it is supposed to improve my online life. (If you want a good Google Wave Primer, check out this research note over on our subscription research service, GigaOM Pro.)
[20] Many more people will be getting a look at Google Wave in the near future. Up to now, Google has been carefully parsing out invitations to Google Wave, its experimental real-time e-mail/chat/collaboration/document sharing platform.
[10] I feel the same way, but that unspoken promise of Google Wave being the "death" of e-mail ( or E-FAIL as Tantek calls it ) is enough to keep trying to use it.
[20] Then there is Google'''s new brainchild, Wave, which is a revolutionizing tool for real-time communication.
[15] "Bringing up bloggers' moms" zing. Google link-throughs might increase our page views, but if you think advertisers in little old Stroudsburg, Pa., are dumb enough to believe the people who clicked from California and New Zealand are potential customers of their pizza stores, clothing stores and food stores, I'd be glad to sell you a piece of that action. We can get those outside-the-area eyeballs, but they don't represent a real market demographic for 98 percent of our available online advertisers.
[4] I work with the Google News team and wanted to provide more detail on our blog-labeling policy.
[4] If you find a source in Google News you believe to be mislabeled, please send us the name of that publication, and we'll review it.
[4] '''Google has all the new phones coming out, as well as search and advertising products.'''
[16] Google'''s cloud-based enterprise software has recently won some high-profile clients, including the Los Angeles council and Rentokil. Microsoft is responding with its own range of cloud-based enterprise software, but the firm has yet to prove it can make significant revenues from its internet division. The firms are also clashing in the search space, where Microsoft is hoping to steal market share from Google with its Bing engine. Microsoft is set to expand its market share thanks to its search deal with Yahoo!, however this will still only give the firm around a quarter of the U.S. market, compared with the two-thirds that is controlled by Google.
[7] In the segment below, Cavuto asks about the potential for Twitter and Facebook to take momentum away from Google among younger Internet users, similar to how companies like Google came along to trump Microsoft.
[6] Google recruits from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, among other places, and has set off hiring wars with rivals such as Microsoft Corp. Now Google is poised to beef up its work force again as the tech industry comes out of a recession and workers remain plentiful amid high unemployment rates in Silicon Valley.
[17] The tech giant's rival, Microsoft Corp., announced another round of layoffs yesterday that will hit the software company's Cambridge work force.
[3] During his swing through Cambridge this week, Eric Schmidt sat down with "On Point" host Tom Ashbrook for an on-stage interview at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. [18] Hmmm Eric Schmidt got his butt kicked by MSFT while he was at Sun, and he got his butt kicked by MSFT while he was at Novell.
[19] Making Chrome work fast, maintaining a clean separation between applications running in different tabs or windows, and supporting the new HTML 5 standard "are central to making the apps model work," Schmidt said. "And Chrome's success is a necessary precondition to the success of Chrome OS," he said, since the one is derived from the other.
[10] Schmidt commented about media, news and bloggers, reminding me of what my mother once told me: it is better to keep quiet about things you don't know much about.
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[5] "We are early in the creative destruction the Internet, which isn't good news to the people who are fighting it."
[18] The voices of America's past
continue to make an impact on the country today, speakers said. Historian and Boston University professor emeritus Howard Zinn, accompanied by producer Chris Moore and actor David Strathairn, shared the vision of and excerpts from their new movie, "The People Speak," and engaged in discussion with the audience at the Tsai Performance Center Thursday night to a capacity crowd of more than 500 attendees.
[12] "In our case we see ourselves as a disruptor, and a disruptor because we are using new technology to solve real consumer problems, that in some cases people didn't even realize could be solved.
[8] The Google chief was optimistic about growth opportunities for information technology in Massachusetts. "I see no reason why you couldn't have very large and very global companies in IT headquartered here," he said.
[3] Top universities, key technical companies, talent that wants to move to Google and so the primary hiring has been, if you think of universities, has been Stanford and Berkeley.
[17] To me, that's a relatively straightforward infrastructure decision. Could we get them to use Google Checkout, other payment systems, and so forth? But I think it's early to talk about that.
[4] My team and I look forward to using the platform for collaboration and easier communication. I think Google has done wonderful work in the past and I look forward to seeing more products from them.
[20] The hiring has been particularly fast and furious at the Internet search giant, which has grown to more than 19,600 employees world-wide. Roughly a third of those workers live in the Bay Area, according to Google.
[17] Vinter said there are now 200 employees working at Google's Kendall Square location. He did not specify how many jobs might be added.
[11] The problem with being laid off in Silicon Valley is if you are laid off for a few years, which would be terrible, during that time, the technology moves forward, so you have to keep yourself current. If they maintain their currency, I think there are very good hopes for them.
[17] '''It'''s highly unlikely that we would get into the content business. It'''s fundamentally better for us to be the supplier of platforms and modernization and revenue and advertising and subscription services to all of these players. We desperately need the newspapers, the magazines, the media companies to be successful because we need their content.'''
[16] We have not yet figured out how to exercise that responsibilityWe're looking for new ideas. It's a hard problem because, as everybody knows, printed circulation has declined, and the online use of newspapers has exploded positively.
[4] Advanced manufacturing is, in Schmidt'''s words, the '''manufacturing of new things that are being produced in very small volumes ''' nanotech, batteries, material sciences.'''
[15] While some of that was interesting, I thought Schmidt's comments on a few of the bigger strategy and policy questions revealed more about the company's outlook on the world.
[10] Schmidt said the company is "getting ready for a broader distribution very soonweeks, not months." He said feedback on the software from early users has been positive, but the company has been slow to invite in more users for fear of outages. "So far the experiment has yielded a very innovative model and a lot of buzz, and now we want to see if it can scale," he said.
[10] Schmidt's topics ranged from GoogleWave project to areas in science that need to be better studied in the next decade.
[12] '''If you look at the quality of the people, the quality of the science, it'''s really the same,''' Schmidt said.
[1] "The general question of leadership and '''are you the next Microsoft''' is really a function of attitude," Schmidt says.
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