Marvin Ammori Quotes

Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.

I think we compete with lots of different players in different areas. So clearly, in our core business, which is search, Microsoft and Yahoo! are the big players, and they continue to compete. There are a lot of smaller search engines as well.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use as the starting point for finding Web information. I switch between Safari, Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers all day. I never stray from Google search.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

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.

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

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.

Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

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

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

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

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.

In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.

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

Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.