Jerry Yang Quotes

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

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

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

Google indexes the world's information.

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

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

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

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

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 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.

If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

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

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.

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

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

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

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

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.

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

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

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.

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.