Sergey also came on very early, probably in late '95 or early '96, and was really interested in the data mining part. Basically, we thought, "Oh, we should be able to make a better search engine."

Stanford would be first. You can take universities and just rank them, and they come out in the order you'd expect. So we thought, "This is really interesting. This thing really works. We should use it for search." So I started building a search engine.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation.