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Location: San Francisco Date: January 12, 2005 Speaker: Marissa Mayer (Google product manager) Event: Conference entitled An Evening With Googles Marissa Mayer

At this conference are interesting curiosities surfaced very interesting life of the new giant of the web go to list below:

1. The Google interface is so minimal because the boys - Sergey and Larry (ed. founders of Google) - did not know very well HTML created that interface because they wanted a system of text input and fast enough;

2. Because of the simplicity of the homepage, in early tests conducted before the people remained sitting at the computer screen real estate. After a minute of waiting, the tester asked "What happened?" Adding "We are waiting for the rest of the page.
To resolve this problem was then inserted the Google Copyright message as a marker of bottom;

3. One of the major innovations introduced in the use of research was the introduction of the spell checker giving birth to the classic message "Did you mean ...". This suddenly doubled their traffic;

4. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" has always been little used, however in testing it was noted that his eventual removal would be unwelcome from users common thing! It was and has become a major key;

5. Google changes frequently. When they want some time to test a particular feature Nouva performing these tests on some users of a particular service. Users of Excite @ Home are "guinea pigs" more frequent;

6. Google has the largest network of translators in the world;

7. Use the 20% rule. If at least 20% of people use a service, then this will be included;

8. It was found during tests that a small number of people are very representative of a greater majority of them. Continually test and monitor their laboratories how people use the findings of a page;

9. Google is a spelling error, the boys really wanted it to be "Googol";

10. GMail has been tested for two years inside before being opened to the world (in the form of invitations). Google has identified six types of email users and tried to please them all 6.

11. Listen actively and continuously to user feedback. Write to Google is not talking to a wall.