How Google RUINED the Internet

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we to start sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)

You may have noticed that Google isn't what it used to be. Search results are buried under ads and sponsored links, and when you do find a result, it's overflowing with SEO garbage. You aren't imagining things: the internet is getting quantifiably worse. In this video, Adam explains how the same Google that once helped make the internet more accessible to countless people has doomed the internet itself for the foreseeable future.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:05.0	Hey folks, Adam here.
0:07.0	If you're a long time listener to this podcast,
0:09.0	you might have noticed that we are publishing this episode on a different day than normal,
0:12.0	with a different run time than normal, and a different day than normal with a different
0:13.0	run time than normal and a different title than normal what the heck is going on well
0:17.0	let me fill you in see on my YouTube channel for the past couple years I've been
0:21.0	publishing monologues which instead of long
0:23.6	unscripted conversations are shorter focused explainers that I write and
0:28.4	research with my team we research the heck out of interesting topics we write a lot of jokes about stuff that we really care about,
0:34.5	and then we share it with you.
0:35.7	Well, we have decided to start sharing those monologues
0:39.0	on the podcast in audio form.
0:41.2	Because hey, maybe you want to enjoy them while you're on your way to work you know you can't be looking at a
0:44.9	YouTube video because then you might crash into the back of a potato chip truck and that would be
0:48.7	delicious but very deadly for you and your family so now you can get it either on my YouTube channel or in
0:54.5	podcast form right here on the factually feed. Without further ado, let's take it
0:58.8	away enjoy this monologue and thank you so much for listening. Have you noticed that lately Google sucks ass?
1:06.0	It was supposed to be the greatest information retrieval tool in history.
1:10.0	But now, even when you search for something basic, the results are full of AI garbage, fake
1:14.8	product reviews, and so many ads you might as well send your search query straight to the spam
1:19.2	bots.
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