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I remember watching this last summer and being amazed at how easily Melissa Mayer shrugs off the key issues regarding search engine bias, privacy, over-reliance on a single source for information, the challenges of the Book Search project, censorship in China, and even security concerns with the level of detail provided by Google Earth.
At about 42:45, she is asked how Google should address and account for such social, political, and ethical concerns when creating such powerful and ubiquitous systems. Mayer seems to hold the position that “we’re just engineers.” Paraphrasing:
M: “I really view us as computer scientists, so we can analyze a problem, and we can solve a problem. But, we’re not government officials, we’re not policy makers on a global scale. We’re simply responding to the needs of our users.”
Q: “With due respect, that sounds almost naive, considering the scale on which Google works.”
M: With a slight shrug, and said with a grin “I’m sorry but that’s my perspective.”
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March 1, 2007 05:35 PM