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.
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To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.
I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
Google is basically this idea that sites that link to other sites create a better way to search.
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.
The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
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