23 Quotes by Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Seventy-one percent of small businesses say they'd rather have phone leads than clicks.

Newspapers are still in a relatively strong position if they can act, but the local initiatives by the search engines are a threat. Everybody understands what's at stake and even the strategy. It's just a question of execution.

I would estimate that approximately that approximately $3 billion today is spent on locally targeted advertising across the various forms of online media.

China is obviously a huge market opportunity growing much faster than the U.S. and Europe. Ultimately, there are more Chinese Internet and mobile users.

I don't think it's a fad. The general Web search market is pretty much locked up, so vertical search is where the opportunity to create something competitive is.

When instant messaging is like Las Vegas, with all kinds of advertising banners, it's very distracting.

I think there's going to be some substitution, but it's mostly going to be incremental growth. A lot of the dollars that are going to happen will not be a direct substitution. The area we'll see the greatest erosion is in the classifieds.

I see Live as a fresh start for Microsoft.