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"Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has just made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.  He discussed Twitter, advertising, Bing, and answered audience questions.\nHere are some of the highlights:On Tim Armstrong: Tim Armstrong used to be one of Google's top executives, but recently became the CEO of AOL.  They saw each other backstage, and said that AOL was lucky to have someone of his caliber at the helm.\nOn Twitter: He was very happy for Evan Williams, Twitter Co-founder and CEO, who sold his first company, Blogger, to Google years ago.  He was not personally involved in the Twitter search deal.  \nThen he was asked by John Battelle whether or not he (Google) tried to acquire Twitter.  He simply stated that \"I did not try to buy Twitter,\" but if a companies approach them, they consider.\nOn online advertising: \"The Internet as an advertising platform is very efficient,\" he said.  He thinks Internet rates are going to go up, \"a rising tide.\"  He discussed the decision to create AdWords, part of their core advertising system.  A good decision, if we say so ourselves.\nOn entering new areas: Google enters areas where they find problems.  Gmail, for example, they entered because solutions at that time were not scalable, did not switch between computers easily, etc.  Android solved the problem of closed, proprietary mobile operating systems. \nOn Bing: He stated that search is a competitive market and business.  He said he uses all search engines (not surprising).\nOn the Yahoo/Microsoft Deal: He wouldn't comment on whether the search deal should go through, but did say that Yahoo has some innovations he hopes don't just disappear.\nOn Chrome for Mac: Sergey is currently using Chrome for Mac.  He's been disappointed with the timing of the beta of Chrome for Mac (he would have rather had them launch simultaneously), but is pleased with Chrome. \nOn Google Books: He discussed the controversy surrounding Google Books (there is a challenge by Microsoft, Amazon, and others to a settlement Google had with authors and publishers), but simply stated that he thought Google Books provided a huge value to society by preserving and sharing books with everyone."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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