Online Search Quotes

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

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

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

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

We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

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

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.

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

People who want to know who I am, or my history, put my name into Google.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

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.

The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.

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

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.

Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.