Online Searching Quotes

Here's the best place that people can find me: go to this website called Google, and then type my name into it. So much stuff.

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

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

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

My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

I search my name on Tumblr more than I Google myself, and I Google myself every day.

I don't do much research on the Internet.

Anything I really want I can find online.

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

Blogs are amazing, and I'm so grateful to mine for giving me such a great platform to explore other ideas, but it's just not practical to scroll through 30 pages of blog to find a dinner recipe.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

I Google myself, and I Bing myself, but only in private. I find it very comforting to Bing myself with a nice cup of eggnog.

I'm not good at going on the internet and trolling around and finding information.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.