"Mr. Kundra also said that he would push the government to embrace cloud computing—having work done on large servers rather than on desktop PCs. He acknowledged that there are privacy and security issues with some cloud-computing efforts, particularly when the computers are not all operated by the government. But he said that shouldn’t stop the government from taking advantage of the speed and efficiency such systems offer."

"What's the most important and quickly growing form of search on the web today? Real time, conversational search. And who's the YouTube of real time search? Yep. Twitter. It's an asset Google cannot afford to not own, and also, one they most likely do not have the ability (or brand permission) to build on their own."

"More and more people are starting to use Twitter to talk about brands in real time as they interact with them. And those brands want to know all about it, whether to respond individually… or simply gather the information to see what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong."