Search Technology Quotes

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

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

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

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

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

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

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

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

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.

In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

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.

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

Google indexes the world's information.

Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.

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

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

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

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.