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I don't think Google Corporate had any idea this was going on and that way more people were interested in it than normal and many were reporters and investors.
by candyman 4y ago
I don't think Google Corporate had any idea this was going on and that way more people were interested in it than normal and many were reporters and investors. It had a feel like a local Google dev group meeting which is informal. I stopped using Google Search months ago because it was totally unusable. For some things it's still good and I use search within Google Maps often.
I think this will make voice-based UI viable (finally!) which is great. It's going to definitely eat into traditional Google ad revenue since clicking around and "impressions" are going to go way down.
- justinzollars 4y agoThis little meetup moved the market!
- ltbarcly3 4y agoGoogle isn't a retail store that has 'stores' and 'corporate offices'. It's all corporate, but you are absolutely right that the 'mothership' in Mountain View is very distinct from offices that are 'remote'. I don't know if Google has internal lingo to describe this but at SV companies I've been at we called it '{city where the main office is}' vs 'remote office'. So if you are at an Oracle office in New Jersey I would imagine you would say something like "I have to get up early to meet with Redwood City."
- stingrae 4y agoThe main presenter is SVP of Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments. So I assume corporate was aware it was happening.
- mcast 4y agoPrabhakar reports directly to the CEO of Alphabet (Sundar). This was not a local dev group event.