Engines Quote by Sam Altman

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

— Matt Mullenweg

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us…

— Sundar Pichai

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent…

— Shawn Fanning

Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use…

— Glenn Kelman

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

— Evgeny Morozov

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able…

— Max Mosley

The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was 'complete' - the entire…

— John Battelle

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made…

— Brock Pierce

Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

— Marc Ostrofsky

I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

— Tim Berners-Lee

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

— Tim Berners-Lee

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them…

— Stephen Cambone