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17 Year Old Computer Whiz Kid Calls Google The Public Toilet at Search Engine Roundtable’s SMX West

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Bompa

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Seventeen year old Andrew Sutherland, a recent speaker at Search Engine Roundtable’s SMX West and author of the Quizlet application (very popular online vocabulary tool) refered to Google search engine as a public bathroom, then back peddles.

Q: All your friends are using Google and some people are getting concerned that Google is getting too big. Is Google loved or hated between your friends?

Andrew: I think Google is like using a public bathroom. [Everyone laughs.] Maybe that’s a bad example. Let’s say that it’s a public water fountain. Nobody cares what’s happening there, I guess. Nobody thinks that there’s a corporate thing behind it. It’s just a tool, like Firefox, in your arsenal of the computer.

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Bompa

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