Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.
Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
Here's a creepy web trick: do a Google image search on 'my grandma.' … It's her, isn't it?
People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.
Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.
Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.
There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of...
Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.
The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!
If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.
