Thomas Friedman Quotes

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library whenever I want to find out something about something and not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

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

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.

The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

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.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

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

Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic.

With the Internet you can research anything.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

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

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.

It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

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

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.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

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