Google Factory Tour - Google Video

[intelliot]

I watched this video, which is dated July 15, 2005, and took notes on what piqued my interest.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...42311441257769
CEO: Eric Schmidt
Goal: Organize the world's information ...
70-20-10 model
Brand and image that transcends borders and geography.
Humily and sense of excitement.
Engineer promoted to "director of consumer products".
Search and ads are core of company.
Improvements to search go relatively unnoticed. (Not true - I notice that Yahoo is currently better.)
Yahoo's index is larger than Google's. Though the numbers might not say so, there are pages I find in Yahoo that I can't find in Google.
Socks are no longer a bottleneck on his laundry cycle. I thought and did the same thing!
Spurious p-rn, 'trickery' results.
Improve ordering based on usage! Tracking clicks on each ranked result. Clickthrough rate in organic results.
Froogle is missing deals and coupons.
New York Times links - good.
Simplified PageRank illustration.
How many servers: 100,000 or more? Confirmed: 10,000
Patents
OVer 100 factors that work for each page
Realtime factors (user feedback) - done that all along and will continue to do it. Weighing factors.
Froogle - stay in beta for a long time. While still working on them, put them in beta. Coming months: taking products out of beta.
Continuous update, depending on the website.
AskJeeves. Take pride in what we do; we have the best results; we do measure our competitors' progress. Having the right user features. Web is growing, creating challenges.

Sidenote: I noticed that Google Accounts now integrated on Google.com searches (email appears at top).
I'm 54 minutes into the video, and it's taking a break: it's just showing the logo with background music. Will add to this post as I watch more.

[intelliot]

figleaves commercial; infoplease - look at CPMs?; @nifty: reduce expense and increase revenue; finance scout 24; all about Japan: contenet matching
AdSense revenue is a significant portion of overall budget that they've earned this year.
$700,000 sales this year from Google.
Google: a world of difference.
start off with AdWords.
85%? of worldwide Internet users.
Clearly 'demarcated'. Not all go to Google for search, so appear on other search engines.
GAP: Google Advertising Professional (I should become one when I'm 1.
director of project management for AdSense.
Monetize their inventory. Largest to smallest.
Tim Armstrong: VP of Ad Sales
20 new pairs of socks all the same color and pattern.
Big difference: always on. Advertisers keep campaigns on all the time. 4 years straight.
4*365=1460. Spend $1 a day and spend just $1460 for four years.
Model becomes self-funding. Earnings go back into ad campaigns.
One hour, 32 minutes into the video.

[Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks]

Look at my signature. Don't double post. It is against the rules.

[Pavarr]

Don't be unnice to him, he is just a poor adminie who forgot where "edit" button lies

Movie is neat. Will dig into it a little bit deeper when I have a little more time...