March 8, 2003

Chillin' with Larry Page

07:43 UTC » Joi's Diary

Went over to Google to hang out with Larry Page. Larry is one of the smartest people I've met and I wanted to get his opinion on some theories I had about where personal communication devices were going. We had started the discussion in Davos and were following up. Larry is a World Economic Forum "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and was also at Paul Saffo's Annual Geeks Dinner in Davos. I had met Larry a few times in the past, but it wasn't until we started talking about technology that we started to communicate in earnest. Sergey dropped in for awhile and we hung out in an office that looked more like a living room with lots of gadgets and toys. Definitely a great environment to work.

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1- Pascal LORNE @ October 28, 2003 1:15 AM

Hi,

I am president of Ismap, a european local search engine.
We plan to implement our revolutioanry technology in the US.
I believe this inovation would interest Google founders. Could you provide me Larry's email?

kind regards

Pascal

2- 3l33t @ March 3, 2004 7:56 PM

Cooooool duude! what were all the toys you got to play with???

3- Emily @ March 31, 2004 10:54 PM

This is Larrys email page@cs.stanford.edu

4- Becky @ May 1, 2004 4:04 PM

Hi Larry and Sergey

You know what im sure youve hear alot of crap from millions but i want you to hear this. If you want to do some good with your succes help others. I have a daughter that has wanted to go to school and suceed for as long as I can remember. So the problem is that getting funds for school is impossible. get this, we make to much money. well unless your able to pull money off of trees most kids have to let there dreams go and work at flipping burgers. you know what that sucks. so what im saying is with what you have made please help some of them. Pay it forward. You know what if I could I truly would and that is what my daughter will do if she can make it all the way threw and get her degree. Pay it forward!

5- Becky @ May 1, 2004 4:05 PM

Hi Larry and Sergey

You know what im sure youve hear alot of crap from millions but i want you to hear this. If you want to do some good with your succes help others. I have a daughter that has wanted to go to school and suceed for as long as I can remember. So the problem is that getting funds for school is impossible. get this, we make to much money. well unless your able to pull money off of trees most kids have to let there dreams go and work at flipping burgers. you know what that sucks. so what im saying is with what you have made please help some of them. Pay it forward. You know what if I could I truly would and that is what my daughter will do if she can make it all the way threw and get her degree. Pay it forward!

6- Samma @ May 4, 2004 4:53 AM

Hi Larry and Sergery,

I think yalls did a good job.

7- Samma @ May 4, 2004 4:53 AM

Hi Larry and Sergery,

I think yalls did a good job.

8- Samma @ May 4, 2004 4:54 AM

Hi Larry and Sergery,

I think yalls did a good job.

9- Gopal @ May 6, 2004 6:58 PM

Larry, you guys are setting up shop in India, with research and development and customer support centers. i wanted to explore if openings with your customer support group.

appreciate if you can help me.

thanks,

Regards,

Gopal

10- sid @ March 28, 2005 3:44 PM

Larry & Sergey are both worth $7 Billion a piece yet it surprises me that they live such modest lives.

Both are my icons along with Bill Gates & Michael Dell.

Perhaps Larry and/or Sergey can boost my websites PR ;) Actually, recently I've been thinking about how Google needs another innovation followed by another IPO.

Currently, they have the customer loyalty and MSN's attempt for a better search engine is slow but quite a possible threat. Yahoo is out of the question as far as search but they have google beat on the portal.

What google needs is 22nd century thinking. Your search engine still needs refining and Microsoft (MS) is working on their own, very spectacular, algorithm.

Many other tools & services on Google are just fun freebies and few are very useful however it's not enough to keep Google alive for the next X years.

AdSense is being overused and overclicked. For my experience, it worked extremely well but was very expensive; this was a year ago. Now I see Google turining into Kanoodle where it's structured so users just click and it isn't quite as targeted.

Google needs further innovation and it needs to act now. GoogleZone is possible. The Epic can happen.

Google needs to become the next Microsoft!

11- steve @ January 17, 2006 1:41 AM

I've done some research in optimization and believe I have a way that google might be able to order search results based on an individual's use. The idea needs to be flushed out, but in principle I believe it will go a long way in making searches more relevant to an individual...

my belief is we are all unique and search result relevency, while might be somewhat dependent upon the crowd, ultimately it is solely dependent on the individual's uniqueness...

can anyone put me in touch with someone at google that would be willing to review a white paper on the concept?

thanks in advance...

12- Rasha Harfouchi @ August 8, 2006 12:33 AM

Hi Iam Rasha , I lived in the states for a while ,and I always belived in the American Dreams , yesterday I was watching a documentry about LARRY Page and Sergey Brin, I got the confirmed that it really dose existe.
I would be greaty to have an answer from Larry or Sergey.

Thanks.

13- php guy @ August 12, 2006 1:26 AM

Is that Larry Page pictured above?

14- NicNoc @ May 7, 2007 4:31 AM

Is that true ?

15- ron carlos @ May 10, 2007 6:25 PM

hello Larry and Sergey, i am a small dreamer to and i have a great idea similar to you great idea. only i don't have a professor a friend a family member to help me secure it and i know its a great idea. i never ask people for help nor do i want anything from you guys other then the know how. you had a dream and it exploded into a global enterprise. I'm hoping on one third of that effect, can you help me? livingstonroncarlos@yahoo.com

16- Kiran @ May 21, 2007 12:57 AM

Hi Larry and Sergey,

I don't know your e-mail, but I sent an e-mail to both of you at your Stanford IDS. Please check and respond.

Thanks
Kiran

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