Google Formula For Adding New Products

gpmac writes "Google executives attempted to demystify the search company's product decisions during presentations with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday. As Google Inc. has moved beyond Web search and into product areas as diverse as e-mail, photo-organizing software and mapping tools, one of the common questions for the company is how it decides where to devote resources. Looks like they are being a little more serious about it than their pigeon story would indicate."

Comments

I deduced the formula several months ago

[Neil Blender]

Here is the psuedo code:

if ( 1 ) {
create_new_product();
}

Formula

[LiquidCoooled]

I'm Feeling Lucky

Re:Formula

[standsolid]

Services synergy:

Imagine, You go to Google Maps and type in your address, then press "I'm feeling lucky".

It then uses Google Local to find the nearest (m/h)otel, then uses Froogle to figure out which one is the cheapest (considering distance and gas mileage). Hell it can even find reviews on usenet using Google Groups

Then it books the motel room for your lucky night.

Hm... this is Slashdot. Back it up a bit...

Pushing "I'm feeling lucky" will map out to the nearest, um, "independent escort service" using the same tools/methods as mentioned above. :)

The Creative Minds At Work

[ackthpt]

I have a friend who works at Google and he gave me a glimpse of the creative processes at work at the very top...

During the Christmas party, Sergey and Larry were driving a large radio controlled SUV around the offices.

Nothing unusual there.

So a few weeks later this same SUV comes bumping around the corner, with the top ripped off and a remote controllable camera mounted on the chassis. One of the two (Sergey & Larry) was navigating it, while the other was operating the camera.

I expect this is all part of their new Search Engine Strategy.

we love google, yes we do. without google we wouldn't know about this while searching for a louis vuitton leopardskin defrobnicator...

Re:The Creative Minds At Work

[nordee]

Yes, it's a meatspace crawler.

Re:The Creative Minds At Work

[DrewCapu]

It's a prototype for how they will verify that their maps are correct.

Ok, everybody! Pair up!

First Pigeon

[Anonymous Coward]

:P

Re:robots.txt files revealing

[Anonymous Coward]

2 years ago called....they want their conspiricy back.

You missed an important part of the code

[Craig Ringer]

if (true)
{
Product* product = new Product;
product->setType(Product::Beta);
products.append(product);
}

Re:You missed an important part of the code

[ggvaidya]

if?! Maybe you meant while?

And yeah, I'm talking to you too, Gramps.

I wish they'd move into house search

[syntap]

I'd love to key in "DVD player remote" or "car keys" and have it show me a map of where it is in my house.

Re:I wish they'd move into house search

[Anonymous Coward]

You haven't used that feature yet? http://vunct.com/~jasonalter/googlekeys.jpg

All hail our computer overlords

[Anonymous Coward]

[conspiracy]What they don't tell you is that 100% of their buisiness model is to make Google so knowledgeable about everything that when it does spontaneously become artificially intelligent it can take over the world in a couple hours. What better way to approach the top-down method to AI design than with a gigantic search engine? [/conspiracy]

Re:Don't be cheap now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for being so damned insightful.

Re:Don't be cheap now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we please stop using the word "revolutionary" to describe everything from Google to Tiny-Tot Pull-up Pants?

Thanks a bunch.

Re:gauction

[Tsiangkun]

That's a lot of pressure to put on google. Going head to head with a powerhouse like ebay might be enough to cause the very intelligent people at google to crack and start functioning at a lower level of intelligence.

Microsoft is a competitor

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Here's their code:

5 REM Copyright 2005 Microsoft
6 REM Contact: marketing@microsoft.com
10 Load "Google.com"
20 Let newfeature = googlefeature
30 goto 30