Tom Junod Quotes

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.

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.

Google is basically this idea that sites that link to other sites create a better way to search.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.

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

Google indexes the world's information.

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

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.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

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

In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.