Google Leaders Defend Business Strategies

Yesterday, during one of the Gartner Symposium sessions, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt hosted a Q and A detailing their positions on a number of areas concerning Google's exponential growth. One of the main areas of concern involves security issues surrounding Google+CEO+defends+privacy+policies/2100-1032_3-5713639.html">News.com, Brin and Schmidt addressed some of these concerns, saying Google's "Don't Be Evil" policy will continue to trump technological advances if the new pending technology does something that could be considered damaging to Google's users. The two also responded to concerns over their satellite capable Maps service. In response to concerns, Schmidt reminded the attendees that Google's satellite map service could only zoom in to a point. Users cannot employ Google Maps to view areas up-close because the service was designed to prevent potentially malicious web denizens from using Google Maps for their stalking needs. With Schmidt's rationale, it's safe to say Google Maps will not be introducing an extended zoom function. Other areas of discussion had to do with the overall strategy of the Google Company. Schmidt reminded attendees that Google was in the information industry and that search personalization and comprehensive content are their primary areas of focus. While Google has expanded their approach to text-based documents to include audio and video files, the newer technology is not available on a large scale as of yet. Because of this, Google is still focusing a large amount of their attention on text-related searches. Murdok. Visit Murdok for the