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Internet Quotes by Eric Schmidt

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Eric Schmidt sees Google as more than a search engine; he says people want the service to tell them what to do next. He warns that the Internet is turning into a cesspool where false information spreads quickly. He also believes that openness and the desire for many voices keep the web free from tight government control.

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The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

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There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.

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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

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The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue,

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Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

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The Internet of things will augment your brain.

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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

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In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the…

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I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be…

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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was,…

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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through…

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And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better…

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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have…

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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

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In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more…

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Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of…

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Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has…

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We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We…

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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.…

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I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental…

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People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a…

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It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want…

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There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

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The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of…

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“With your permission you give us more information about you, your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We…

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You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for…

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When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more…

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I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means,…

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We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very,…

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I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are…

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Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always…

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Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about…

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I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of…

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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information…

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It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down.…

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I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

We run the company by questions, not by answers.

We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly,…