Semantic Search Quotes

#1. When it comes to semantic search and the success of your social media policy, truly, there is only one thing that absolutely counts: engagement.

David Amerland

#2. The idea of reputation, influence, and influencers in the offline world is as old as the hills. It's not new on the web either, but semantic search is creating a portable sense of identity, reputation, and influence that in the days before it simply did not exist. And this is changing everything

David Amerland

#3. To win at semantic search you need more people than are on your payroll.

David Amerland

#4. Semantic search is a holistic effort by Google (primarily) to understand who you are and what you do across the web.

David Amerland

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

Andrea Jung

#8. When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.

David Amerland

#9. Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

Brian Weiss

#10. Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.

David Amerland

#11. The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#12. Marketing effectively, in a semantic web, revolves around those three 'little' requirements: Trust, Authority, Reputation.

David Amerland

#13. What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.

David Amerland

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

David Amerland

#15. 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

#16. I am a firm believer that knowledge is power but only if it leads to comprehension.

David Amerland

#17. The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

David Amerland

#18. I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

Ridley Scott

#19. Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

David Amerland

#20. If there are any to see I at least am revealed to them. I have written Gandalf is here in signs that all can read from Rivendell to the mouths of Anduin.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

David Amerland

#22. A pair of eyes attached to a human brain can quickly make sense of the content presented on a web page and decide whether it has the answer it's looking for or not in ways that a computer can't. Until now.

David Amerland

#23. Everything you see in the world around you is content of some kind. The clothes you wear, the songs you sing, the ads you watch, the food you buy, the tunes you hum and the memes you share. Everything is a signal that sends a message.

David Amerland

#24. Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Joseph Joubert

#25. Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.

David Amerland

#26. An entity, whether a person or a thing, requires the independent collection of facts about them and a cross-referencing of these facts through their digital footprint.

David Amerland

#27. Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

Karina Longworth

#28. It matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Harriet Martineau

#29. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.

David Amerland

#30. It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.

David Amerland

#31. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan