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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
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For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.
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Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
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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 search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.
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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 the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world it's better for our advertisers it's better for Google.
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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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Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
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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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When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
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If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
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There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
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It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.
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The Internet of things will augment your brain.
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The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.
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It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
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Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.
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The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
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