Land of the Giants: The Google Empire

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Vergecast is on vacation this week, so instead we'll share an episode of Land of the Giants from our friends at Recode. Land of the Giants is a podcast that explores the five biggest tech companies and their impact on our world, and this season is all about Google. The episode we're sharing tells the story of how two grad school students with a unique way to search the internet launched a company that would become the gateway to the internet for the entire world. In the rest of the season, Land of the Giants: The Google Empire will cover issues like Google’s relationship with the government, the origins of their antitrust troubles, and what their future may look like as they face off against Congress and the Biden Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of taking the week off.
0:05.0	My name is Dieter Bone and as you may have guessed, Neely is off this week and I was lucky
0:10.4	enough to get a hold of a COVID-19 vaccine.
0:13.6	I got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and that was yesterday, which means that today I'm
0:17.9	kind of feeling it a little bit.
0:20.1	But there's very good news instead of listening to me do an LG for LG phones that are no longer
0:27.8	being made.
0:28.8	I'm so sorry.
0:29.8	Instead of that, our bunch of the other tech news that we are still going to get to next
0:33.0	week, we have an episode from our friends over at Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:38.6	It's called Land of the Giants, the Google Empire.
0:41.5	And it's an entire season all about Google and how it turned into an empire.
0:46.7	It's hosted by Shrine Gaffari and Alex Cantrowitz and it's really good.
0:50.8	You should definitely give it a listen.
0:52.0	We are presenting the first episode here, which is all about the founding of Google.
0:56.2	You might sort of know some of the stories.
0:57.7	But there's a lot of really funny, interesting details here that you might not have heard
1:01.0	before.
1:02.0	The entire season runs through a bunch of different issues with Google from YouTube to the ad
1:06.4	network to some very, very timely episodes about AI and ethics because there's been a bunch
1:12.2	of stuff in that of the news last month or two.
1:14.4	I was actually participating a little bit in some of the early development of this podcast,
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