Conversation With Google CEO Eric Schmidt

On August 9, 2006 Danny Sullivan, the man behind the Search Engine Watch web site have a conversation with Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google.

The conversation was at that time live on the Internet through Webmaster Radio FM.

Here's some quotes from Eric comments:

"Well, remember, our fundamental goal is to derive the most accurate search results. That is the paramount goal. That's more important than any of the other things that we're talking about. So we always make these decisions based on coming up with that perfect result to that query that the end user gives."

"AdSense for Content has far exceeded what we thought it could do. And what we're particularly excited about is that a large number of people who did not have an opportunity to make money based on their ideas, their information, their hard work – often [these are] very, very small operations, one person, two people – now at a minimum have enough money to fund their data center work, the computers that they need, their specialized tools, a little bit of an income. In some cases it's even much more successful than that."

"And it's important that we, Google, not give out information that can be misused or is essentially false. So we've chosen, to the frustration of many, to not reveal the underlying economics of the ad box. Partly because it's changing so quickly.

And all of the estimates that you see are based on smart people making estimates without our assistance. We think for numerous reasons that's the right decision. It's how we run the business."

"Gmail is an example of a huge success, because it really solves the problem with what to do with all that data online. So it's in your email folder; you can search it. People love it."

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