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Hi, BetRofline fans. It's me, your host, Ed Zittron.

Now, here in America, it's Thanksgiving.

So we're all given the week off.

Robert and Sophie have told me I'm not allowed to podcast, and if they find out, they're going to

once again put me in the carnival prison, and once again I was sent a low-quality JPEG of a gun by Robert. Unclear what it means. Nevertheless, this is one of my favorite episodes I've ever recorded. It's about a real shithead who destroyed a product I love, you love, and we both are doomed to use every day. Now, if you're not in

America, and this is a big problem, I don't know what to tell you. The podcast doesn't cost you

any money, unless, of course, you pay $5 a month for our Coolozo Media, in which case, I apologize

deeply. I will be sleeping not at all this week as penance for what I've done to you. For the rest

of you in America, no penance necessary. Please enjoy this episode. Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I'm your host at Zitron. Et cetera.

And in the next two episodes, I'm going to tell you the names of some of the people responsible for destroying the internet.

And I'm going to start on February 5th, 2019, when Ben Goems, Google's former head of search,

well, he had a problem.

Jerry Dishler, then the VP and GM of ads at Google and Shiv van Carterman, then the VP

of Engineering Search and Ads on Google properties, had called something called a Code

Yellow for Search Revenue due to, and I quote

emails that came out as part of Google's Antigrust hearing, steady weakness in the daily numbers

and a likelihood that it would end the quarter significantly behind in metrics that,

kind of unclear. For those unfamiliar with Google's internal kind of Scientology-esque jargon, which means most people, let me explain.

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