Mike McCue Quotes

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.

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

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

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.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

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.

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

Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

I don't surf the web very much.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.

The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

World Wide Web: Proposal for a HyperText Project

I don't understand the interweb.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they're more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.

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

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

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

Eight minutes is a long time in basketball.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

I'm pretty Net-savvy. My surfing time is precious.