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For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

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Marissa Mayer
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 30
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Wausau
Wisconsin
Marissa Ann Mayer
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Google
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Tools
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For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
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It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
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You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
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