“If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.” PeopleIfsKnowsUseMovingSafeWorriedApplesGoogleInfrastructure Author:Tim Cook
“I think people need to understand that deep learning is making a lot of things, behind-the-scenes, much better. Deep learning is already working in Google search, and in image search; it allows you to image search a term like "hug."” PeopleThinkingNeedsTermBehindsSceneHugGoogleBehind The ScenesDeep LearningGoogle Search Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.” WayYearsFunFoolGoes OnCoupleYears AgoOne WayGoogleMarsVolunteerAprilApril Fools Author:Richard Branson
“The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.” NeedsJobsLastsMovingPresidentDaughterGoogleUnemployedBasementsMillennialsLove For Her Author:Kate Siegel
“My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I would think that if I were at Twitter, I would focus on the search aspect of Twitter, because people are revealing intents when they do a search.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFocusAspectGooglePredictionsRevealing Author:Jason Kilar
“More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.” PeopleUseEarthPlanetsComfortableToolsBillionsMapsResolutionGoogleGoogle MapsGoogle Earth Author:Rebecca Moore
“Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.” PeopleFirstsWellsLooksI CanEarthCan DoSpaceFiguresGoes OnNeighborVacationGoogleBackyardsGoogle Earth Author:Rebecca Moore
“There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.” ThinkingWellsEarthMillionsThousandFlyingStatementsGooglePicture Is Worth A Thousand WordsGoogle Earth Author:Rebecca Moore
“When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsSeemsAskingYeahGoogle Author:Geena Davis
“I have the Google alert for marijuana articles come on my phone everyday. There are some interesting ones that have come up that I file away.” InterestingEverydayPhonesCome UpArticlesMarijuanaGoogleFilesSome Interesting Author:Deborah Kaplan
“Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?” PersonsFunHalfGoes OnKingsNewsSillyComedianGoogleSiteHeadlines Author:Brad Williams
“Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.” KnowsI CanUseInfluenceAccessGoogle Author:Noam Chomsky
“So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.” FirstsLooksInterestAmountConcernInstitutionsProfitAdvertisingLook UpDependentFundGoogleAdvertisers Author:Noam Chomsky
“You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.” KnowsWantListsGoogle Author:Noam Chomsky
“The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.” WayGovernmentCoursesInfluenceMediaMaterialsGoes OnElementsFunctionCorporateConcentrationGoogleVery PowerfulSimilarityAmazonGovernment Work Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.” ThinkingWayFoundCreaturesGoogleMarineMarine CorpsBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.” WayProblemMightTogetherTechnologySolutionsGoogleBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsMadeGoogleGood WorkBetter Place Author:Jonathon Keats
“I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.” LooksBigsGoogleBlogs Author:Khloe Kardashian
“It's unreal. I mean, the dog backflips. It's amazing. Google Jumpy on YouTube - I had seen the dog first and I was like, "Y'all don't even know."” KnowsFirstsMeanDogGoogleYoutubeUnrealBackflips Author:Ti West
“I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.” ThinkingWorldWayBeautifulAttentionCompanySuccessfulModelsAdvertisingGoogleWorld HistoryProfitableMerchantsIdealisticBusiness Models Author:Tim Wu
“The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.” InterestingAdvertisingHatedFoundersGoogleMost InterestingInteresting Things Author:Tim Wu
“I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidEndsWantedResultsPayCompanyBecomingDemandHighestHappeningsIncreaseStartingMapsAdsGoogleThey SaidDegradingUberGoogle Maps Author:Tim Wu
“I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising, is they should start letting people pay who want to pay and avoid some of the advertising.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldPayCompanyAdvertisingBest ThingsEthicalGoogleTraps Author:Tim Wu
“Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say is, we deliver your message at the exact time someone is, say, looking for fishing hooks or looking for marriage counseling or looking for a lawyer for a particular problem. And here we have our customers telling you what is in their heart and soul. It's something that, you know, advertisers have wanted for decades.” KnowsHeartSoulStatesProblemAbleWantedParticularMessagesCustomersDecadesLawyerFishingGoogleHookHeart And SoulCounselingAdvertisers Author:Tim Wu
“When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.” IfsThinkingKnowsIdeasStatesMomentsAbleCarInternetProveNormalMessagesAdvertisingHeyGoogleProfitableClicksDeliveringRight MomentPrimacy Author:Tim Wu
“Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or less. For example, I think mortgage refinancing can cost - now, it's probably hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So, in other words, they are allowing you to bid on what people are going to type, and that is the AdWords program. So you own certain terms, and then your ads show up as opposed to someone else's.” PeopleThinkingShowsCertainTermExampleTypeCostProgramDollarsAllowingEnginesAdsGoogleMortgageSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time - so in other words, you still get the - there still are honest to goodness results which are based on an algorithm which is based on how important or how many people link to that particular site, so there's that. At the very beginning, there were unobtrusive advertisements on the side that sort of showed up when you typed in certain phrases. Over time, the amount of real estate that those ads take up has increased.” PeopleStillsImportantRealCertainSidesLinesResultsHonestParticularAmountGoodnessPhrasesLinksAdsGoogleSiteEstatesAdvertisementsAlgorithms Author:Tim Wu
“I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsModelsGoogleBusiness ModelsAdvertisers Author:Tim Wu
“I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so therefore, not only Google, but Google, Facebook, Twitter - the whole set of companies - essentially knows all your weaknesses and therefore how to manipulate you in subtle ways in order to have you do things you might not otherwise do.” KnowsWayEndsWholeMightOrderCompanySituationKnownWeaknessConcernedSubtleGoogleManipulate Author:Tim Wu
“I'm kind of concerned the combined effect, not only Google, all these companies is kind of to make us more boring and that seems the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be.” KindSeemsCompanyEffectsInternetConcernedOppositesBoringSupposed To BeGoogle Author:Tim Wu
“Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little simpler than Google and YouTube, but it does show there's another way.” KnowsWayLittlesDoeShowsAdvertisingGoogleAnother WayWebsiteYoutubeWikipediaNonprofits Author:Tim Wu
“Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.” KnowsWayProductsIncreaseMarkAdvertisingSubtleEngineersLoadGoogleSiteZuckerberg Author:Tim Wu
“Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product is incredible. So there's a sort of exchange when you put up with a bunch of ads. Facebook basically gives you access to your friends who, in theory, you had access to already. So sometimes I don't really understand the deal, but I guess it makes it slightly easier. So that's their contribution.” KnowsGivingSometimesDealsProductsTheoryEasierIncrediblesAccessBunchContributionMapsEnginesAdsGoogleSiteYoutubeSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.” StillsEnginesAdsLots Of MoneyGoogleSearch Engine Author:Terry Gross
“People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by the behavior of Google, a corporation that notionally (until recently anyway) espoused the slogan "don't be evil" and then runs over individual people and even entire nations in the pursuit of profit.” PeopleLongRunningPastEvilIndividualNationsUnderstandingMemoriesTrumpPoliticianBehaviorProfitPursuitCorporationsGoogleVividSlogans Author:Dale Jamieson
“Google "Donald Trump Iraq." And you will see the dozens of sources which verify that he was for the invasion of Iraq.” SourceTrumpIraqDozenGoogleInvasionVerify Author:Hillary Clinton
“Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool.” YearsStillsStrongToolsGoogleHammersVintageFramingMontgomeryGoing StrongRotary Author:William Gurstelle
“People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.” PeopleSaidGovernmentEvilFeltUnderstoodTrustedGoogleEvil Things Author:Cathy O'Neil
“Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.” PersonsDoeIdeasBigsGivenNo IdeaGoogle Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.” WantedClassDressesPassionateGoogleOutfits Author:Iman Shumpert
“We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.” AgeSubjectsGoogle Author:Roger Housden
“All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can't substitute for real connection and community.” RealSeemsLastsCommunitySawsInternetSixAll ThingsConnectionsMilesGasSubstitutesGoogleBenignGoogle SearchReal Connection Author:Bill McKibben
“Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.” MightCompanyStagePositionIncludingAcquireGoogleCrushedIncumbentsAirbnb Author:Alexis Ohanian
“[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."” TwoEngineersGoogleSlidesPrintedNsaAnecdotesProfanity Author:Edward Snowden
“In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education. I was particularly inspired by my upbringing in Guatemala, a poor country where high-quality educational opportunities are limited to those who have money.” YearsCountryHelpingWantedOpportunityPoorQualityCoupleDecidedInspiredEducationalSpendingGoogleUpbringingHigh QualityPoor CountriesGuatemala Author:Luis von Ahn
“Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"” BelievePersonsParentHeardPleaseInterviewsBelieve In MeGoogle Author:Itzhak Perlman
“If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.” IfsThinkingDangerProductsToolsCustomersGoogle Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“The Google guys haven't even found a way to put abortion in the Constitution yet. Give 'em time. Give the Google guys time and abortion will show up in a keyword search of the Constitution. It's not there yet. Second Amendment is.” WayGivingShowsGuyFoundHavensConstitutionAbortionEmsAmendmentsGoogleSecond AmendmentKeywords Author:Rush Limbaugh