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Xu: Google's food ordering failed because it couldn't manage post-checkout logistics
“I remember services, you know, Google food ordering launched in, I forget, 2015 or 16, and they allowed you to order delivery, for example from various Google services, you know, Google Maps, Google Search, et cetera, and while on the one hand it was low frict…”
Pichai: BERT and MUM drove Google Search's largest quality leaps
“BERT and MUM, people underestimate how much, because we measure search quality so religiously, some of the biggest jumps in search quality in that period where search went ahead of everyone else was because of BERT and MUM. We built transformers and used it im…”
Pichai: Google improved Search latency by 30% over five years
“You know, last I checked the dashboards and the metrics, we've actually improved search latency by 30% in the last five years, but think about the functionality progression that's happened.”
Pichai: Google enforces millisecond-level latency budgets across Search engineering sub-teams
“You know, I was speaking with the teams, right, like they now have for sub teams, like latency budgets, like in the milliseconds. You'll get 50% credit if, so if you ship something which, you know, shaves off three milliseconds, you earn 1.5 milliseconds for y…”
Pichai: Google rolled out agentic tool 'Jet Ski' to Search team
“For some strange reason, we have a different name internally than externally of the same product, but it's jet ski internally which is anti-gravity. And you're living on it. You're living in an agent manager world, your workflows, and you're kind of working in…”