Marissa Mayer is one the most prominent female faces of Google. As VP of Search Product and User Experience she has an important role at all recent developments of Google, including its new browser Chrome and Google's agreement with Twitter. Also, she deals with the current discussion on paying for content. At LeWeb she was interviewed by Mike Arrington, founder and editor of Techcrunch. About old school media publishers she says:

On old school media:

We think like this: if you reinvented news and the business model in the industry, how would you go about it? And we have to conclude a lot needs to change.

We already help publishers with some of their monetization problems, just look at the 5 billion we paid out to publishers around the world thanks to Google AdSense.

About personalized news she says:

[.] a very compelling product; [is] what I call a hyper-personalized news stream.

On old school news publishers, like New York Times she says:

[The New York Times] really want to learn how they can reinvent themselves.

Here is the full 20 minutes interview:


This week saw LeWeb 2009, in which men and women from across the web addressed almost 2000 attendees in Paris.