How Google Search Sold Out
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In the early days of internet search engines, Google set itself apart by providing a simple service. A list of links, inviting you to explore the websites that best matched your query. It was a portal to the rest of the internet. But over the last two decades, that mission has changed.
Does Google search still take you to the best result for your query? Or does it point users back to its own suite of products?
Guest:
Adrianne Jeffries, investigative journalist at The Markup.
Host
Celeste Headlee
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In the early days of internet search engines, Google set itself apart by providing a simple service. A list of links, inviting you to explore the websites that best matched your query. It was a portal to the rest of the internet. But over the last two decades, that mission has changed.
Does Google search still take you to the best result for your query? Or does it point users back to its own suite of products?
Guest:
Adrianne Jeffries, investigative journalist at The Markup.
Host
Celeste Headlee
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices