People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It’s a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search… I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.
When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
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.
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don’t monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we’ve measured it.
We want to make sure the thing you’re looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
The coach doesn’t have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
Washington – having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently – is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody’s ox is getting gored.
I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
People are building communities of people who use video. They’re sharing them. YouTube’s traffic continues to grow very quickly.
You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that’s on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don’t like.
The coach doesn’t have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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.
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.
The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
It’s very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it’s so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don’t monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we’ve measured it.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that’s really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that’s the best use of my time.
In general in technology, if you own a platform that’s valuable, you can monetize it.
The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It’s better for the world; it’s better for our advertisers; it’s better for Google.
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