Michael Shermer Quotes

Google is basically this idea that sites that link to other sites create a better way to search.

Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.

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

Google indexes the world's information.

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.

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.

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

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

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

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

People should understand that Google changes every day.

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

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

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

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.

Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

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.