Lest we forget, here’s a short list of what she’s accomplished and/or worked on at Google.
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- Youngest member of Google’s executive operating committee (36)
- Managed Google local search
- Interviewed Lady Gaga (!)
- Managed Google Maps for mobile
- Managed Google Earth and street view teams
- Instrumental in the Zagat purchase
November 2005: VP, Search Products & User Experience
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- Managing products such as Google News
- Introduced Google CheckOut
- Iterated Google Translate
- Championed Google “universal search results” … in which all results types (video, etc.) are included in the main results
- Ran the “Marissa Gauntlet,” Google’s new feature pipeline
- Fought to maintain Google’s clean, spare look
March 2003: Director, Consumer Web Services
- Nurtured Google Desktop Search
- Managed multi-lingual additions to Google.com
- Started Google Local search efforts
- Championed personalized search (iGoogle)
- Organized Google parties
July 2001: Product Manager, Google.com
- Managed Google News
- Worked on Google images
- First to work exclusively on user experience
- Managed user testing
- Almost killed ads in Gmail
- Added the Copyright sign at the bottom of the page
June 1999: Software Engineer
- First female engineer hired at Google
- One of first 20 employees
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