James Gleick Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.

If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

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.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

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

I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

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.

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

Search is an unsolved problem.

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

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

We believe PulseRank will replace PageRank over time for the real-time Web.

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.