The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.
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 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.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
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.
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.