Dave Girouard Quotations

It's not just looking through Web pages. It's actually a front door to business applications.

We're not just aiming to partner with the big guys.

We definitely see a situation where a significant number of customers are probably questioning whether the Verity products will be developed and supported going forward.

There are a bunch of legacy search solutions out there that, in our view, have not been updated or redeveloped recently. This is aimed at any company using a search solution that is long in the tooth.

It makes the Search Appliance more useful. Search really is a simple front end to get into these applications.

On the Web, there's almost nothing you can't get through the single search box. We're looking to extend that to the enterprise, so that people are searching not just documents and Web pages, but are able to get contact info, customer info and inventory levels all with one click -- whatever they need to get the job done.

It's a fast ramp and a wide ramp. We know the demand is out there already.

Innovation happens in the consumer space much more quickly. For a lot of reasons, applications that are delivered to users in the consumer space have a much higher degree of focus on the end-user experience.

The idea is we sell a very general-purpose platform for search.

We are certainly much smaller than the mother ship, but we are doubling in size every year and are profitable.