“Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.” ShouldGovernmentTechnologyInternetDevelopingBarriersGatesGoogleMicrosoftNew TechnologyBypassSensors Author:Tom Lantos
“The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.” NeedsHardDreamBigsNextGenerationsInternetTablesClassroomFoundersGoogleBig ThingsNext GenerationLabsInnovatorsNeutralityBargaining Author:Edward Felten
“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.” KindLongAbleDifferencesInternetWalkingDegreesDistancePhonesEnormousPocketsGoogleCheaperPhone CallsLong DistancePdaRiyadh Author:Thomas Friedman
“Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.” LongWould BeAnswersTeacherInformationInternetObviousGoogleRubbishWrong Answers Author:Sugata Mitra
“Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.” KnowsWayNeedsTryingDoneFactsHavensWillingInternetSafeHighestPagesPaidRateMarketingExpertsCopiesLinksGoogleThreateningClicksExperimentationBeing WrongSafe HavenInternet Marketing Author:Mike Moran
“If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.” IfsBelieveInternetBasketballAreasLifetimeDon't BelieveBelieve In MeGoogle Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays.” InternetGoogle Author:Anneliese van der Pol
“Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.” ThinkingKnowsUseUsedGuyTechnologyKnow HowProgressStupidInformationInternetHorseEducationalAccessThanksDumbSmarterGoogleElectricityEducation SystemIphoneTokensEducational SystemWigsAccess To InformationNeanderthalsStupid Guy Author:Glenn Beck
“I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.” WantLooksKindSometimesInternetGoogleHomesickness Author:George W. Bush
“Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.” PeopleIfsInternetUnderstoodAssumingVery GoodEnginesGoogleSearch Engine Author:Rory Sutherland
“I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.” PeopleLongDoeEndsSelfNumbersLandExampleMovementInternetLong TimeOkayPhonesHillsGooglePredictionsEmailCablesGuessingSatellitesBacklash Author:George Saunders
“The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.” IfsWantFirstsSimpleInformationInternetLibraryGoogleKate Author:Theo Paphitis
“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!” UseGovernmentVoiceCan DoStupidExampleInternetShapesProjectsSmartResearchDefenseAgencyMapsDisplayGoogleUnclesNavyCiaIphoneSurfNasaNot StupidGpsUncle SamSiriGoogle Maps Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Testing was used in advertising decades ago. The internet has made testing so easy that every online marketer can use it to improve advertising results. Google content experiment is a free tool for you to do split testing.” MadeUseUsedEasyResultsInternetToolsDecadesExperimentsAdvertisingOnlineSplitsGoogleImprovingTestingMarketersNever Stop Improving Author:David Ogilvy
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.” InternetLetting GoDoctorsScaryBad ThingsGoogle Author:Carrie Brownstein
“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
“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
“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
“Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.” WorldInternetFocusedGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter apologized that his company promoted some of the things that elected Donald Trump. You don't see that much of these apologizing from Google. From Mark Zuckerberg you are hearing a little bit more of it, but he is a little more "Oh, well, this is what happens because the internet scaled up and everybody has fake news; oh, we are gonna build a better technology".” MomentsFeelingsTechnologyInternetFakeFoundersGoogleApologizingOh Well Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“Journalism continues to go south, thanks to big media and its strangulation of news, and there's not much left in the way of community or local media. Add to that an internet that has not even started thinking seriously about how it supports journalism. You have these big companies like Google and Facebook who run the news and sell all the ads next to it, but what do they put back into journalism? It isn't much.” ThinkingRunningCommunitySupportInternetThanksJournalismGoogleIt Support Author:Michael Copps
“With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines - now you're on the web. I'm in book publishing. I don't have to tell you what's happened to us. Television has taken a hit. The music industry. But, thousands of new businesses have emerged on this new communication revolution platform. Not just Google, Facebook, and Twitter. There are thousands of operations. Businesses that are doing the platforms, the apps. They're mining the big data. They're creating the connections.” BookTakenCommunicationRevolutionInternetPublishingGoogleMusic IndustryMiningNew Business Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“If you think too much about nudity, it can be anxiety-provoking because it lives on the internet forever. I've only taken my clothes off on that one other show, and yet, if you were to Google Image me, it would seem like I do this all the time. As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look. Obviously, being picked apart with your clothes on is slightly less terrifying than when your clothes are off.” ThinkingForeverTakenInternetGoogleNudity Author:Lizzy Caplan
“The industries closest to Google - media, advertising, and entertainment - are affected first. But the avalanche that is Google and the internet will overtake all industries and institutions - carmakers, bankers, universities, government - as we undergo a fundamental restructuring of the economy and society. Every industry and institution would be wise to understand the need for handing over control, for transparency, for collaboration and speed.” EconomyWiseInternetSpeedAdvertisingCollaborationGoogleTransparencyBeing Wise Author:Jeff Jarvis
“I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveWishRealizingInternetDebateChineseFree SpeechGoogleGuardian Author:Jeff Jarvis
“I'd love if Google ran my cable or phone company. Instead of making their businesses out of telling us what we can't do, GT&T would recognize the benefit of helping us do what we want to do: use the internet more and create more of our own stuff. Google might even figure out how to make connectivity ad-supported and free. Sadly, though, I think Google knows what it is and won't expand into other industries, even if it would be good at running a cable or energy or phone company.” ThinkingHelpingRunningEnergyInternetBe GoodRanGoogle Author:Jeff Jarvis
“There's been a lot companies that have shown "zero to one" kind of growth in the computer, internet software age. Facebook and Google are zero to one companies. Apple's iPhone was the first smartphone that really works, and of course, then you scale it horizontally, but the vertical component was really critical. Space X would also be one.” KindAgeGrowthInternetComputerSoftwareGoogle Author:Peter Thiel
“When I watch TV, and TCM isn't on, I just switch channels and look at all the information about everything. The internet is perfect for that, which is why I didn't really want to get a computer in the first place. I thought, "If I have a computer and know about this whole Google thing, I am not going to be able to sit still for a second; I'm going to think about something and then have to look it up." I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.” ThinkingReasonGuyPerfectInternetComputerGoogle Author:Fiona Apple
“I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.” InternetFollowingGoogleUnhealthyTurned Off Author:Marina and the Diamonds