Instead, the company is focusing on keeping its prized search engine tuned to outrace the competition. That puts Henzinger, director of research, at the heart of the company. Not only are Henzinger and her team of 10 scientists dedicated to keeping the engine running smoothly, but also they're in charge of adding new features such as translation, dictionary links, maps and white pages. Henzinger's team is responsible for making Google run on wireless devices and, with voice recognition, on cell phones as well. Google's success raises the possibility that it, too, could slip into portalhood and get distracted.
Executives brush off the concern.
That's our core mission. Analysts don't seem worried, either. The company may be conservative in its goals - but not with its perks. For her part, Henzinger ignores most of it. She and her husband, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, are expecting a second daughter in July.