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title: "Marissa Mayer’s Need for Speed"
date: 2006-11-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
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# Marissa Mayer’s Need for Speed

*Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored [by Yahoo!](https://web.archive.org/web/20111126193352/http://yodel.yahoo.com/)*[![](https://web.archive.org/web/20111126193352im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/Yodel-Anecdotal-banner3.jpg)](https://web.archive.org/web/20111126193352/http://yodel.yahoo.com/)

Marissa Mayer from Google only has 10 minutes to speak at Web 2.0 Summit, so she gives a high level look at Google’s use of Ajax in applications. She notes that the key reason they created Gmail in Ajax was speed. This is a theme in Google Maps too. In terms of Google Videos, she says how instant something is and giving instant gratification is key – they used to make users wait 24-48 hours to see their videos after uploading to GVideo.

She asks what does speed mean for future apps? She has a slide that shows browser support – FF2 and IE7. Marissa says we’ll see built-in support for client side languages (e.g. javascript). She says also that people will spend more time online, due to increase in broadband etc – and this is good for Google. Another point she makes is that mobile hardware will improve a lot.

In conclusion, she says speed is very important for web 2.0 and the future of the Web.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/marissa_mayers_need_for_speed.php))*