“Getting rid of duplicate pages and consolidating signals to one canonical URL is not rocket science and doesn’t sound as sexy as structured data, RankBrain or voice search, but it’s still a great way to improve rankings, traffic, and ultimately revenue.”— Robin Rozhon, rozhon.com
“How did we know it’s the right thing to do? We simply looked at the percentage of indexed URLs that generates organic traffic and the number was depressing: Only 8.55% indexed URLs had generated at least one session in a month. That’s a painfully low number.”— Robin Rozhon, rozhon.com
“Digital advertising started with people putting banners on websites and targeting users based on what sites they were on. These sites had audiences people trusted, so they wanted to reach them. Then Google and other companies invented audience-based buying, which was all about cookies. Advertisers c…”— Dan Greenberg, emarketer.com
“Is Google a woman? Because it won’t let you finish your sentence without coming up with other suggestions.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“The smartest companies don’t tell their employees how to innovate, they manage the chaos.”— Eric Schmidt, mastersofscale.com
“I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling t…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Bing could have totally crushed Google if they had called it "Bang" I mean, think about it.. "I BANGED Emma Watson last night."”— guyi567, reddit.com
“Chrome engineers saw that a change was happening in hardware and they started making better use of that new hardware.”— Lin Clark, hacks.mozilla.org
“Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world.”— Noam Cohen, nytimes.com
“The portion of evolution in which animals developed eyes was a big development. Now computers have eyes.”— Jeff Dean, nytimes.com
“These new computational techniques create a broader palette for artists.”— Allison Parrish, nytimes.com
“What gender is Google? Female, because it doesn't let you finish a sentence before making a suggestion.”— ShadyNZL, reddit.com
“What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful. You just put out a manifesto inside the company arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in their jobs because of some political ideas.”— Yonatan Zunger, medium.com
“That Google anti-diversity manifesto is some seriously entry-level Reddit MRA board intellectually vapid bullshit.”— Elizabeth Spiers, twitter.com
“I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how much data matters.”— Eric Schmidt, businessinsider.com
“I'll bet the rest of my professional career that the future of your business is big data and machine learning applied to the business opportunities, customer challenges, and things before you.”— Eric Schmidt, businessinsider.com
“As a buyer, you cannot place advertising on Google and Facebook, optimize your spend against those audiences, and then port those learnings and that spend to other platforms. It's like Hotel California: you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!”— Alex Merwin, adage.com