Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president, has said in Web 2.0 conference: “We don’t want to be seen as a gorilla in the [Silicon] Valley.”


Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales and business development, said, in Web 2.0 conference, that what Google feels a bit of pressure about is to not be perceived as a Goliath whose entry into increasingly more new markets may harm the ability of smaller technology companies from innovating.

Omid Kordestani said, “We feel that sense of responsibility. We’re sensitive to that. We don’t want to be seen as a gorilla in the [Silicon] Valley”.

Omid Kordestani said, during a session in which he answered questions from conference chair John Battelle and from audience members, Page’s passion about driving improvements and innovation across all Google services has been key to making the company successful.

According to Kordestani, co-founder and President of Products, Larry Page starts counting after he runs a query on the company’s search engine to see how quickly the results come back.

He also evaluates how relevant the results are to his query, and he’s never satisfied. “He doesn’t think our search engine is a good search engine today”.

According to Kordestani, Page’s disappointment with Google’s core service has been there at least since he joined Google in 1999.

Kordestani also said that the one thing that Google executives do not obsess about is Microsoft, including its profile, products and articles. He said, “Although Microsoft has identified Google as one of its biggest competitors, Google keeps its focus on serving its users, not on one-upping Microsoft”.

 

 

 

 

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