Adam D'Angelo Quotes

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

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

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

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

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

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

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

I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

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.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

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

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.

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

Google indexes the world's information.

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.

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

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.

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.

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