Meet The Man Who Runs Google Search — With Prabhakar Raghavan

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Prabhakar Raghavan is the Google senior vice president who oversees Search, Maps, Ads, Commerce, Payments, and Google Assistant. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the evolution of these products, how they're integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and why he's steering Google tech products toward more human-style interactions with users. Raghavan joins fresh off an appearance at Google's Search On launch event and breaks down the new features announced Wednesday.

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0:19.0	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:23.6	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.6	LinkedIn Presents. Welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation, of the tech world and beyond.
0:52.9	We are joined today by a really special guest.
0:56.1	He runs and let me know if you can give anything else inside Google that is not under his
1:01.1	umbrella, but search ads, commerce, maps, payments, and Google assistant. I'm talking about
1:07.5	none other than Prabhakar, Raghavan, Google's senior vice president for all of the above.
1:13.3	Rabakar, welcome to the show.
1:15.3	Hey, Alex.
1:16.4	Thanks for having me on your show, and it's a super exciting time with our search-on event, with so much to share.
1:23.8	I'd love to share more about it today.
1:26.5	Also, I hope we hear some details that you haven't presented today.
1:30.9	Just for listeners' edification, we're getting Prabhakar right,
1:34.1	basically hot off stage at SearchOn, which is just taking place,
1:40.2	and then this pod goes basically as the folks get off stage.
1:44.9	So it's a big event that Google uses to talk about search.
1:49.0	So over the next 45 minutes or so, we're going to talk about, you know, is there actually
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