27 Quotes by David Filo

Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.

Advertisers in general are demanding a more and more relevant experience. The more we know about a user, where they are located, what their interests are, the more we can match the right ad to the right time.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

We’re not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose – to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that’s out there is only going to grow exponentially – and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

Online advertising is display plus search.

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