SEL: Google's Schmidt and Brin Answer Questions

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May 19, 2005

Google's Schmidt and Brin Answer Questions

Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin hosted a Q&A session. Larry Page was out of town and could not make the event. Below is a selection of some of the questions and answers.

Question: How many more pages are out there, that are crawlable?
Brin - Substantially more than 8 billion.
Schmidt - added that Froogle has allowed them to get structured feeds. This has helped to get to more content from the web.

Question: Is there a point in which Google cannot continue to scale?
Schmidt – We are always resourced constrained. If anyone is in a position to take advantage of the reducing cost of technology and infrastructure, its Google.

Question: Is Google language biased when it comes to Google Print?
Schmidt - We work very, very hard to represent non-English languages accurately and fully.
Brin – a little ironic as half the Google Print team is actually French.

Question: Will you be supporting RSS enclosures or podcasts.
Mayer – if it becomes a common request from users, they will look to introduce it.

Question: Will you support an API that allows users to access their own info.
Schmidt – the principle is that we will not hold your information hostage.
Brin – That makes sense to me, but I cannot comment on the priority of it. In principle it makes sense to allow the information to flow back to the user.

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