Sergey Brin and Larry Page with Jim Fallows at Zeitgeist 07
I was digging around for videos from the Zeitgeist (I wish I had a login to that site), and finally found some new ones a few days ago. The founders of Google don’t often show up in presentations, but since the Zeitgeist is a Google event, it was fitting.
Sergey and Larry talk about some interesting things about Google and where they see its and the Internet’s future. An audience member had asked what content creators can do to better align with the vision of Google’s. Sergey said, “I think one of the things that tends to really decrease, perhaps, the utility of sites is when they go overboard with the fanciness; really fancy Javascript and Flash flying around. It has two negative effects: (1) harder for users: it might slow down your computer or…mobile device, (2) make it somewhat harder for search engines to parse through the stuff; what’s the real information on the site.”
Thank you for that! I wrote about how “Loading pages should not take this long” last week, and as I said, it wasn’t because I didn’t like advertising and the “fancy [stuff] flying around”, but it just makes the Internet slower.
