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.
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Related If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's... ASHTON KUTCHER Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, rememb... SERGEY BRIN It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on ... NIKLAS ZENNSTROM If Google had 'everything', everyone would be a billionaire; overnight. ANUROOP TYAGI I think Google is going to blow them out of the water. So they need to dive into some niche and deve... CHARLENE LI Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at an... BEN PARR In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit th... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is... JOHN BATTELLE The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc... SERGEY BRIN Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after al... JASON FRIED That has been the big threat from Google all along -- that Google would turn the Web into this platf... MATT ROSOFF Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made t... BEN PARR Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. ... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search eng... MARVIN AMMORI Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on. NICK DENTON Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of ou... SERGEY BRIN If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world ... JARON LANIER Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's ... FRANK BRUNI Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the... DAY ONE Me and search engines, we always have a race but Google wins. LILY CHATTERJEE The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search. CHARLENE LI Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop ... NICK DENTON Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable. EVGENY MOROZOV People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box ... EVAN SPIEGEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at ... SUGATA MITRA While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email a... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF It just adds to the Google lustre. He would be a smart visionary and leader. DANNY SULLIVAN When I tried to do a search for marital advise on Google, it tried to finish my sentence for me, jus... ANONYMOUS Google never knew how successful key words would be. YURI MILNER In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete defin... MUNIA KHAN As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort ... DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ Recently, the Google Internet search "Diwali greetings" was the second-most popular search worldwide... JUNE PRESZLER Bible reads 'Seek and you shall find' but after Google it goes like 'Search and you shall find'. EPHDAN Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to... PETER SINGER Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o... TAYLOR SWIFT A mechanic walked in front of the engine and was pulled into the engine. LAUREN PEDUZZI Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies tha... EVAN WILLIAMS A quick search on Google yields over 11.5 billion hits for the word “time.” In comparison, more ... STEVEN KOTLER We've backed ourselves into a very dangerous situation. The economy is dependent on everyone consumi... DEAN BAKER We want to get the message out that Ask.com is a serious alternative to any search engine out there. DANIEL READ Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastruct... JOHN BATTELLE Google Earth is an incredible resource because from hundreds of miles in space, we can zoom in, and ... SARAH PARCAK A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising. SUSAN WOJCICKI Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results a... ERIC SCHMIDT Google wouldn't be Google unless we used it. MICHAEL MCGROARTY Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the eq... COLIN ANGLE Greatest men are those who don't ask Google instead they tell Google
If I can get everything u are s... GOLDEN MASHEGO Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book withou... DAVID ADLER I never did make any money out of that, ... I'm just not able to make it work. It's harder than it l... DON ROGERS Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, wi... BARTON GELLMAN The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equal... SUNDAR PICHAI GOOGLE Yourself Before you GOOGLE the Internet MINA TADROS The statistics doesn’t prove anything; Hitler, a messenger of violence, has more search results on... DR HITESH C SHETH I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting histor... EMMA DONOGHUE Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along wit... MARVIN AMMORI I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be f... MARY LOU JEPSEN The way you want to be treated is a lot like how Google wants to be approached. Play nicely. Mean wh... JOEL CONNER My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference l... CRAIG SILVERSTEIN The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become co... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old... JAMES FALLOWS It's going to be the show of the century. Everyone can make a bit of money out of it. ISAAC SOLADADE When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly. JEREMY STOPPELMAN Google is a spy, Twitter is a whistle blower, Facebook is a unity, the media is a source of war, rel... EPHDAN You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed! EDDIE MCCLINTOCK With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I ... DON BLUTH When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. VOLTAIRE What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values... SALAR KAMANGAR If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a l... CHARLIE MUNGER Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of... MAGGIE STIEFVATER There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT We're not disputing the fact that (executives) deserve to make a lot of money. Just make it performa... COLEMAN STIPANOVICH Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on... MARCUS BUCKINGHAM My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration w... RAY KURZWEIL If that intensity on the practice court increased, it would make her better, and more than anything,... KURT GREENE King Solomon was right, when he said that there is nothing new under the sun because, very rarely yo... DR HITESH C SHETH Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect... THOMAS FRIEDMAN People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because... ANOUK PAPPERS & MAARTEN SCHäFER Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertisin... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I often hear or read: “Time is money.” If that would be true, everyone would have exactly the sa... EMA DAN With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already control... DAVID ULEVITCH Google is setting itself up to be an application delivery system for any type of device, STEPHEN ARNOLD Google is setting itself up to be an application delivery system for any type of device, STEPHEN ARNOLD Apparently Eddie Bernice Johnson didn't give much thought to the fact that we're one of the top taxp... ED STEWART That's sort of where Google is today, MARK MATTHEWS I think going into the tournament if it gets to that situation, that?s something that I would defini... ANN STROTHER It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what th... JOHN BATTELLE Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, mean... EDUARDO PAES Heck, Google Talk doesn't even feature a box to let you search for things, as rival products from AO... DANNY SULLIVAN With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were st... CHELLIE PINGREE I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but ... WERNER HEISENBERG For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone aroun... SUNDAR PICHAI Everyone is saying small business is the engine of the economy, but we're not putting any gas in the... DONALD WILSON Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere story NANCY CARTWRIGHT Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful... DREW BARRYMORE Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represe... SEANAN MCGUIRE What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship b... BEN PARR Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accesse... SUNDAR PICHAI There is phenomenal momentum behind search engine advertising. The number of advertisers using searc... GARY STEIN
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