Matt Drudge Quotes

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.

Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

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

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

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

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.

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

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.

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.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

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.

I try not to read Google.

Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.

Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

I guess you can run from Google, but you definitely can't hide.

If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

People should understand that Google changes every day.

There's tremendous SEO value in Gawker.

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.

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

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.

Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.