When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens – there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.
I found a new love in Google. I’m a Googler now.
The Google Quad Campus looks way too nice to sit on top of an active Superfund site: There are matching bikes, a pool with primary-colored umbrellas, and a contained universe that looks more like a college or a park than a satellite campus of one of the biggest companies in the world.
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn’t know how successful Zynga would be.
Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
I saw a ’60 Minutes’ piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There’s free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I’m the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything – I’d be all over the Ping-Pong.
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).
I definitely don’t Google my name.
Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what’s the right experience for the ads.
Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts – like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects – while Google’s advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company’s finances.
In the bubble that was dot-com 1.0 emerged Google, Amazon, and some of the most valuable companies on the planet. They were successful because they focused on their customer; they focused on revolutionary products.
It’s pretty shocking that the guys in Europe who cover traditional media will cover Google, whereas in the U.S., there are five different equity analysts that will cover the internet universe.
Android phones in China are more ‘Android open source’ rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don’t have Google Play, etc.
Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.
If we don’t build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I’m, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends’ and loved ones’ faces live.
I don’t know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don’t know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.
Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and development, advertising sales, and mobile platform development.
Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.
We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.
The longer you’re on a show like ‘SNL,’ the less frequent the Google alerts become.
The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
Isn’t Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!
If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work – you should join VMware. We didn’t have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It’s just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.
My children – in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.
The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called ‘contextual computing.’ We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.
I want to know what kind of personal, private, confidential information that Google collects from its users.
When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.
The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.
I have made so many friends at Google it’s not funny.
Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.
Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
There’s this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn’t the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services – search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play, and apps.
The U.S. can use its control over the dollar and the global financial system to shut down any bank or bank account in the world. It can use its control over Apple and Google to remove apps from the App Store and Google Play.
Think about it. If it’s taking pictures, it’s not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald’s app to tell you where McDonald’s is based on your GPS location, that’s not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that’s not a cellphone.
It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can’t tell you how many people have had this syndrome… the ‘Old Hag Syndrome.’ Apparently, there’s this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her – she’ll pop up. She’s out there.
I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we’ll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they’re at your fingertips. If they’re all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.
To be honest, I don’t even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I’m not even sure how it works.
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There’s a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that’s all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to ‘read’ its street address images – in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically – and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.
Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you’d go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don’t do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.
If I didn’t love acting, I would love to work at Google… if they’d have me. They have the coolest perks a workplace can have.
Working on Ethereum could be similar to working at a Google: lower risk with broad impact right away. Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential.
