I do not believe the employees at Google, Facebook, or Twitter ever imagined their products would harm democracy in the United States or anywhere else. But the systems they built are doing just that. – Roger McNamee
All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history. Facebook, YouTube and Google, Twitter and others – they reach billions of people. The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type of content that keeps users engaged – stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear. – Sacha Baron Cohen
Isn’t Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them! – Hilarie Burton
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It’s possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast. – George Dyson
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can’t stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something. – Julian Baggini
I have turned off Google Alerts and don’t Google my name or my pen names. I don’t go on message boards. I don’t read my book reviews. – J. A. Konrath
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site. – James Altucher
I’ll admit it: I’m one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name. – John Battelle
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo – there’s a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company. – Jan Koum
Google Now supplants the need to open an app by surfacing cards – cards that magically turn into just the information you need, when you need it – without having to go to an app to get it. – John Battelle
It’s become something of a ritual – every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to. – John Battelle
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs – Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable. – John Battelle
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing. – James Gleick
It is seldom right to say that anything is true ‘according to Google.’ Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for ‘hamadryad,’ and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it’s a rock band, too, wouldn’t you know). – James Gleick
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and ‘favorite’ tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google’s algorithms so potent. Twitter’s famous hashtags – #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls – are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching. – James Gleick
Google’s thing is not advertising because it’s not a romanticizing operation. It doesn’t involve expression. It’s a link. What they’re doing is selling access. – Jaron Lanier
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed. – Bill Maris
I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it’s possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone. – Adhir Kalyan
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. – Anneliese van der Pol
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google’s mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible. – Bill Maris
