Search Engine Quotes

#1. tubidy

Tubidy Mobile Video Search Engine Tubidy indexes videos from
internet and transcodes them to be played on your mobile phone

Shalini

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

John Carmack

#3. Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Rory Sutherland

#4. Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

Howard Rheingold

#5. While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and development, advertising sales, and mobile platform development.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#6. There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Mitch Kapor

#7. 1. If you want to stay at the top of Google, never rely on one tactic. 2. Always ensure your search engine strategies rely on SEO best practices.

Adam Clarke

#8. Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.

Marvin Ammori

#9. Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#10. The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.

David Sze

#11. 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

#12. The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

Joshua Cohen

#13. I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

John Battelle

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

Marc Ostrofsky

#15. I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day job that I didn't care about instead - I placed banner advertisements on the web for a search engine company.

James Bernard Frost

#16. When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

Christina Baker Kline

#17. Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

Marc Ostrofsky

#18. Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms change.

Jill Whalen

#19. Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.

John Niven

#20. I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

Ramez Naam

#21. I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.

W. Bruce Cameron

#22. Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.

Luis Suarez

#23. God is like a search engine - He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#24. The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

Jack Dorsey

#25. Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Peter Singer

#26. [Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

Vince Gilligan

#27. 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

#28. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

Maureen Dowd

#29. Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

Jack Ma

#30. To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?

Marc Goodman

#31. Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.

Derek Sivers

#32. 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

#33. We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

Matt Cutts

#34. 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

#35. Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

Larry Page

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

Ethan Zuckerman

#37. Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#38. The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#39. If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

Garrett Camp

#40. 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

#41. What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Dave Barry

#42. The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

Nicola Lagioia

#43. In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

Robin Li

#44. 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

#45. My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

David Naylor

#46. My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

Temple Grandin

#47. But you weren't born," I tell him. "I wrote an algorithm based on the Linux operating kernel. You're an open-source search engine married to a dialog bot and a video compiler. The program scrubs the Web and archives a person's images and videos and data - everything you say, you've said before." For

Adam Johnson

#48. Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue ... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

Rush Limbaugh

#49. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

Sergey Brin

#50. 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

#51. The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Trip Adler

#52. If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

Trent Reznor

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

Sam Altman

#54. The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

Barton Gellman

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

Amit Singhal

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

Larry Page

#57. Apparently, the glasses didn't need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone's personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual's address, the browser couldn't actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?

Chess Desalls

#58. For a generation of customers used to doing their buying research via search engine, a company's brand is not what the company says it is, but what Google says it is.

Chris Anderson

#59. advertising or PR, which gives a short burst of traffic, search engine optimization can increase traffic to your site for months or years.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#60. There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

Eric Schmidt

#61. 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

#62. In many ways semantic search takes us back to the golden days of the Web when in terms of working online anything was possible as long as you had passion, belief in yourself, and energy to work at it.

David Amerland

#63. Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule.

Raheel Farooq

#64. With your permission you give us more information about you, your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less guess what you're thinking about.

Eric Schmidt

#65. I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

Akiane Kramarik

#66. At its most basic level semantic search applies meaning to the connections between the different data nodes of the Web in ways that allow a clearer understanding of them than we have ever had to date.

David Amerland

#67. 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

#68. Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it.

David Amerland

#69. In few other marketing activities does the phrase "the more things change, the more they remain the same" hold as much meaning as it does in search.

David Amerland

#70. I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.

Alexa Chung