“I’m going to make a deliberate effort to respond as little as possible to outside work-related emails.”
Google Web-spam czar Matt Cutts, on his 30-day experiment in making the search engine even less human, MattCutts.com, 23 March 2010
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
DON’T BE EMAIL
March 23, 2010SOME DICTATORS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHER
March 22, 2010“Our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, on moving his Chinese search engine from the mainland to Hong Kong, while continuing to maintain an iron grip on the online identities of users worldwide, Bits, 22 March 2010
DON’T BE HOWEVER EVIL
March 18, 2010“Concentrate all of our efforts in building up numbers as aggressively as we can through whatever tactics, however evil.”
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen in 2006, on how he inflated YouTube to a $1.65 billion sale to Google, in an email revealed in a Viacom court filing, MediaMemo, 18 March 2010
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE CHEAPER
March 9, 2010“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the Internet.”
Google chief economist Hal Varian, on how print media can shrink itself into some kind of dystopic media future, TechCrunch, 9 March 2010
THE BRAND CALLED WHEEE!
March 1, 2010“I think about our brand and how our brand comes across to consumers as being this really fun and delightful and friendly brand, I think about what other big company has that same brand identity? And Google is at the top of that.”
Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato, on selling his online photo-editing startup to Google for a bunch of lava lamps and free food, TechFlash, 1 March 2010
