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. – Eric Schmidt
I used to say that you’ll have 10 IP address on your body… and it looks like that’s going to happen through medical monitoring. – Eric Schmidt
Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we’re working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we’re in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that’s the secret of Google. – Eric Schmidt
The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that’s really an FCC issue, not a Google issue. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
Google docs and spreadsheets don’t work if you’re on an airplane. But it’s a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud. – Eric Schmidt
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
There’s nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. – Eric Schmidt
I’ve never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don’t meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic – in every one of these places. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
People are building communities of people who use video. They’re sharing them. YouTube’s traffic continues to grow very quickly. – Eric Schmidt
The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
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. – Eric Schmidt
