Search Engine Quotes

• Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

  Sergey Brin

  Powerful, Business, Technology

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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Intelligent, Giving

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: "Understand Everything". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Important, Pennies

  "Search Engines 101: Part I" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

  Max Mosley

  Issues, Able, Persons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  People, Holy Grail, Want

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

  Larry Page

  Mean, Giving, Want

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• Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Use, Know How, Knows

  "Search Engines 101: Part I" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

  Clive Thompson

  Memories, Computer, Social

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• It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Use, Source, Materials

  "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

  Sergey Brin

  Google, Marketing, Helping

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• I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

  John Carmack

  Islands, Games, Engines

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• I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Information, Publishing

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• Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Half, Traffic, Engines

  "WordPress makes a stand for open source morality". Interview with Tim Anderson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Confusing, World, Engines

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• A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

  Terry Gross

  Google, Stills, Ads

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. October 17, 2016.

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Business, Learning, Zuckerberg

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

  Sam Altman

  People, Portal, Features

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

  Amit Singhal

  Stars, Destiny, Google

  "Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before". www.slate.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Pay, Journalism, Infinite

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• Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  People, Bypass, Navigation

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

  John Tinker

  Reality, Names, Differences

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• Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.

  Matt Cutts

  Choices, Google, Quality

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