The most important thing that Nicolas Weng Kan, CEO of Google Compare, told an audience of insurance professionals today is "Google Compare is not becoming an Auto insurance carrier."

Speaking at the Annual Insurance Executive Conference held in New York City, Weng Kan said that Google wants to partner with carriers to make the buying experience better for the consumer while delivering more qualified leads to carriers, agents and brokers.

Google's strength is in its ability to quantify search and analyze data, and the company wants to put that strength to use in a broad array of financial services, from insurance to banking, including credit cards and mortgages. Weng Kan explained that in building Google Compare, his team met with carriers and agents to build question sets to gather basic information from consumers as they began their hunt for Auto insurance.

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