12 Quotes by Gary Stein

If it's got good data in a large index, then you can say it's a viable business and know your customers will go to that search engine.

It does certainly seem like everyone is interested in AOL these days, particularly because of its (large volume of) traffic, ... There is no clear indication that AOL is even looking to sell, but now, all of a sudden, they are the most popular girl at the dance.

There is phenomenal momentum behind search engine advertising. The number of advertisers using search to market products continues to grow, as does the overall efficiency of the market-- search engines are getting even better at making money off search engine results pages.

There is phenomenal momentum behind search engine advertising,

We'll have to see if all the search players decide to buy companies with cute little names.

E-mail is the killer (application) for getting people to share information.

There's going to be a small number of people who can do it professionally. These are people who have something unique to say and a big audience. There are definitely going to be superstars. But there are no get-rich schemes.

These sites will be totally attractive to advertisers for one reason: numbers. Their audience is big and growing and their demographic are young males bored with cable and broadcast TV and who are spending more time on the Internet.

Advertising is turning into this math problem for them. At some point, who cares whether it's print or online or skywriting or whatever?