We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
Don’t be evil.
If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
I worry, but I’ve worried all along. I worried as we got bigger and there were new pressures on the company.
The dot-com period was difficult for us. We were dismayed in that climate.
In general we’re trying to use the web’s self-organizing properties to decide which things to present. We don’t want to be in the position of having to decide these things. We take the responsibility seriously. People depend on us.
People do it (searching on web, spamming) because it’s like discovering fire: “We can affect the web!” Well, you are the web, so of course you can affect it.
Advertising is more predictable and probably more effective.
We try to use elements from different companies, but a lot is seat-of-your-pants stuff.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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