James Gleick Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

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

If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

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.

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.

The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.

The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.

Google indexes the world's information.

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

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

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

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

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

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.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

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