Steve Berkowitz Quotations

If some people are upset about the butler going away, so be it. As more people come to our site and are satisfied with the results they get, they are going to forget the butler.

Just with those two handicaps, she's pretty amazing doing what she does.

When I joined Ask, I thought there are only two places the company can go, it can go up or it can go out of business.

The unique search experience at Ask.com has resulted in the largest U.S. percentage growth among the major search engines for 2005, and we look forward to bringing that experience to more European users. With the help of Ask.com, Internet users in France, Italy and the Netherlands will now be able to get what they are looking for faster.

The opportunity to work in the online space for a company like Microsoft, with its vision, capabilities and global reach, is truly exciting.

We are excited to be extending the capabilities of the My Way portal platform to Frontier. Like Frontier, My Way is committed to customer satisfaction and continuously delivering a world-class portal with leading content and search services to Frontier's customers.

This is really the first time in our history that we have been able to stand up and shout about what we are doing so we can get the attention we deserve.

Tao's impact at Ask has been immeasurable, due in large part to his role in transforming Ask.com search into one of only four technologies operating at a world-class level today. Tao has been instrumental in pioneering some of the most important developments in the history of search, particularly in the area of large-scale distributed architectures and algorithms, and we look forward to his continued contributions.

The new Ask.com is the culmination of years of innovation, combining the most advanced core search technology with one-of-a-kind tools that make search better. People deserve a search engine that gives them the tools to get what they need faster, not just a bunch of links on a page. Ask.com takes search to the next level.

The user will benefit from the ability of the technologies to understand more about them to make search more relevant and to make information retrieval more relevant. But it will take time and probably more than people anticipate.

Germany has the greatest number of Internet users in Europe, with more than 42 million people online, and we believe it will be a very important market for the growth of Ask search technology and the Ask brand.

It's almost like they want us to go away a little bit. I think there is a little bit of resentment. I don't know if it's coming from the superintendents or from the athletic directors.

Everyone knows there has to be some give-and-take. Especially during basketball season, when our teams seem to do well.

It's going to take a lot of time before users are going to trust putting a lot of information into the computer, when there are scams that go on and you keep reading about credit card and identity theft,