Marissa Mayer interviewed by Michael Arrington

below you can find the live report of the interview

• We are waiting for Marissa Mayer and Michael Arrington to go on stage
• Michael Arrington making remarks about the lunch time and the internet because of the bad first day
• In the end the audience can ask questions
• Marissa announces Global Zeitgeist 2008
• Zeitgeist is broken out over 30 countries to see trends on a local level
• New announcement: iGoogle themes for photographers
• About Chrome: big priorities are getting out of beta. Taking that technology and making it better
• Why Chrome so soon out of beta? 
• Arrington: Searchwiki: you've been testing this summer: "What in the world were you thinking?"
• Searchwiki can be turned off by the user (opt out) sometime next year.
• Searchwiki is not used to improve searchresults
• 90% of search is done: the last 10% are the hardest. What are you going to do to take search to the next level? What's the future of search?
• Mayer: we think competition in search is good
• How and where can you search? Now you use your laptop. We are looking to make it easier for phones, cars etcetera. 
• Introducing new media in search results. In the end almost all search pages should have alternate media in it
• Speach text will be there before face recognition
• There is a lot of promising data, we will have a break through in 5 to ten years
• Because of personalized search we can give better results the next time you search
• Local search: most time spent is within five miles of your home so local is very handy
  
• Privacy: we take privacy very seriously. The best privacy rules are: transparancy and choice: whether or not you want to participate
• What do you do with the ideas people hand you? Mayer: Some of the best ideas come from searchers. For example the omnibox in Chrome is based on observation of userdata
• Speech text: accents are a problem. Google is building a dataset
• How do you pick people? We are really looking for people who have fire and passion for change in the world and are able to accelerate
• Interview ends