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# Le Web 08: Marissa Mayer
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/12/le_web_08_marissa_mayer/
- Published: 2008-12-10T13:39:41.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-22T21:48:48.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Google, leweb, marissa mayer, mike arrington, search, Video

![Marissa Mayer at LeWeb 08](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/12/CRW_7657_2.jpg?resize=960%2C641)

The WiFi problems continue at LeWeb, so liveblogging is hard-to-impossible. However, I have a load of notes, and I’ll try to get them online before the Techcrunch party tonight.

However, Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience at Google, said a few blog-worthy things that are rapidly bloggable:

- [Chrome](http://www.google.com/chrome?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is out of beta
- [Searchwiki](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) “on” is likely to remain the default option. It’s more about personalisation than another part of PageRank, but if tens of thousands of people downrank a result…
- Video search is a challenge. Two likely routes: speech to text and face recognition. Speech to text is more advanced, and we might see it next year
- Time-based searching is another thing we’re likely to see in the default search next year.

I got the impression that a lot of the hard-core webby types skipped this session, which was a shame. This was the least product pitch presentation I’ve seen Mayer give, thanks to some intelligent questioning from Mike Arrington.