Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer in a podcast on the topic of why Google search is so bad explained that it wasn’t Google that was bad it was the Internet. Then she opined that one of the reasons for keeping users on Google is because the web isn’t always a good experience. Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer was employee #20 at Google. She played key roles in virtually all of Google’s major products, including Google search, local, images, and AdWords, to name a few. She left Google to… Source link
Read More »Canadians ‘hesitant’ to jump back into Black Friday: Yahoo/Maru poll
One in five Canadians plan to take advantage of Black Friday sales this year, a new Yahoo/Maru public opinion poll shows, with the younger cohort driving most of the shopping. The survey found that 21 per cent of Canadians intend to purchase goods this upcoming Black Friday, which would be a pullback in shoppers versus last year, amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the poll, 25 per cent of Canadians made a purchase in relation to Black Friday in 2020. Younger… Source link
Read More »Chris Noth was ‘hesitant’ to reprise his role in ‘Sex and the City’ sequel
Chris Noth’s return to the role of Mr. Big in the “Sex and and the City” revival almost didn’t happen. The actor tells Yahoo Finance Live that at first, he was “hesitant” about reprising his role as Carrie Bradshaw’s on-again, off-again main squeeze in the Emmy-winning HBO comedy-drama that originally ran from 1998-2004. “It was a little bit of a sort of creative negotiation because I didn’t really feel I had anything to offer in that role again. It kind of felt like I had done… Source link
Read More »