Marc Ostrofsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the local markets they serve.”

“There are hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet.”

“Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.”

“You might call me a tech intermediary. I know how to talk to the people in Silicon Valley and then take that information and explain it to everyone else.”

“Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.”

“Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.”

“The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.”

“I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.”