Jennifer Lee Quotes

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

Google indexes the world's information.

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.

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

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

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.

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.

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

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

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

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.

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

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

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

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use as the starting point for finding Web information. I switch between Safari, Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers all day. I never stray from Google search.

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

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.

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.

Kamala Harris is fumbling and she's like, 'Oh, I'm going to go after Twitter because Elizabeth Warren sucked all the oxygen out of the room.' She's standing up and saying, 'I'm going to go after Facebook, I'm going to break them up, I'm going to go after all of these big technology companies.'

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.