Maureen Schumacher is a 15-year marketing veteran responsible for revenue generation, operations and account management of Google’s largest agencies and advertisers in the southeast. Maureen and her team provide best in class partnerships, centralized sales and servicing to some of the world’s most widely recognized brands. Maureen brings with her 13-years of senior marketing experience from GE, most recently serving as VP Marketing for their Consumer Finance Division.

Dan Rubinstein, product management director at Google's SME Business Platform unit, also touched on the real-time inventory system. Rubinstein noted he was speaking personally and not for Google, but it's hard to believe that Google, which is integrating its marketing tools directly into Intuit's Quickbooks, isn't going to be a player. Rubinstein's 10-year vision included a search where a local consumer could view real-time inventory data across merchants and products.

Linus Upson, the engineering director at Google who briefed me on Google Gears, said that Google created the plug-in because its application customers were unhappy about not being able to work offline.