Nick Denton Quotes

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

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

Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

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.

Google indexes the world's information.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

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

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

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.

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.

Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.

Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along with Bing or Yahoo.

Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search engines. Many of the allegations of demotion come generally from sites of pretty questionable quality, such as Nextag and Foundem. Some of Google's primary competitors in 'specialized search' clearly place well in search results - Amazon and Yelp.

Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search?

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.

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

Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

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

People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.

Here's the best place that people can find me: go to this website called Google, and then type my name into it. So much stuff.