Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

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.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

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.

If we give the impression that every one of our technological advances in this country, be it Microsoft, Google, Yahoo or anything else, are really an instrument of our intelligence agencies, how far do you think they are really going to go?

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

People should understand that Google changes every day.

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

Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time - so in other words, you still get the - there still are honest to goodness results which are based on an algorithm which is based on how important or how many people link to that particular site, so there's that. At the very beginning, there were unobtrusive advertisements on the side that sort of showed up when you typed in certain phrases. Over time, the amount of real estate that those ads take up has increased.

So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

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

SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.

Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.