Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google. Liz Reid is the VP of Search at Google. The two join Big Technology Podcast to discuss the way Google plans and builds in the generative AI era, including how it chooses what to ship and when. We also cover publisher traffic, search monetization and ads, shopping and product research, and the near-term future of the web. Hit play for a clear, no-fluff conversation with the leaders building search’s next chapter. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	How is generative AI changing Google and how does Google think it's going to change everything for all of us?
0:07.3	Let's talk about it right after this.
0:09.6	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:16.0	Today we're going to go deep into how Google is handling the generative AI challenge or opportunity, with two of the
0:22.2	executives spearheading the change within the company. We're joined today by Nick Fox. He's the
0:27.2	SVP of knowledge and information at Google. Nick, great to see you. Welcome to the show. Great to be
0:31.4	here. And we're also joined by a returning champion, Liz Reed, the VP of Search at Google. Liz,
0:36.3	great to see you. Delighted to be invited back.
0:39.0	So, Nick, you and I spoke for my book, Always Day 1, which was a book about reinvention.
0:44.2	Yep.
0:44.4	And the idea was there are going to be technology shifts that tech companies are going to have to deal with,
0:50.6	and the ones that stay relevant are the ones that get ahead of change.
0:55.0	Yep. I think we both agree that this generative AI moment is a moment of radical change in tech.
0:59.0	I agree.
1:00.0	How do you figure out the timeline with which you are willing to implement change?
1:07.0	Because this technology is moving extremely fast and it's not moving fast in a uniform fashion,
1:13.2	right? There's going to be moments where it will excel in some areas and not in others.
1:19.5	And in some moments, it will be able to handle certain challenges, but then you add something new
1:24.1	and then it hallucinates more. So with such a quick changing technology,
1:28.7	such a powerful technology, how do you plan? How do you move forward with this change?
1:33.9	First of all, great to be here. Thanks for having us both. I think Google's search is a story
1:39.4	of reinvention through really, really for Google's entire history.
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