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Recode Decode: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live conversation recorded at Made By We in New York City. In this episode: What DuckDuckGo does; why Weinberg started the company; contextual advertising; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; are people actually mad about privacy violations?; Weinberg’s proposal for national privacy legislation; competing against Google and the “filter bubble”; data interoperability and what good policies would look like; what can consumers do to protect themselves?; security and facial recognition; the small number of people making decisions for the whole world; should Americans have the right to be forgotten?; and can there be a DuckDuckGo for YouTube? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

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0:32.0

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0:42.0

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0:48.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, the editor at Large of Recode.

0:53.0

You may know me as the champion of Duck Duck Goose and all other preschool games, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode D-code from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:03.0

Today we're going to play a live interview I recently conducted in New York with Gabe Weinberg, the CEO of the Privacy Focus Search Engine, Duck Duck Go.

1:11.0

This interview was recorded live at the Made by We Space in New York City, which is an event space in the Flatiron District owned by WeWork.

1:18.0

Let's go there now to hear my interview with Gabe Weinberg.

1:22.0

We're going to very quickly bring up Gabe. Come on up, Gabe Weinberg. He's from Duck Duck Go. We're going to talk about the awfulness of Google now.

1:33.0

This is Gabe. He's the founder and CEO of Duck Duck Go. This is another search engine. You do have a choice in this world, whether you know it or not.

1:42.0

All right. So Gabe, we were just talking about inequity and wealth and stuff like that. Let's talk about inequity of information, because that's really what's happened.

1:52.0

We have given over control of our information to one company, really, in this world.

1:57.0

I'm going to tell one quick story before he starts, so you get a sense of it. I was walking in the early days of Google with Larry Urserge.

2:06.0

I often can't tell them apart. There was a room full of televisions like a circuit city. I looked in and it was recorded. They were all on all these dozens of televisions.

2:16.0

I said, what are you doing? I think it was Larry. We're recording all of television. I was like, why? We can figure out a way to search it.

2:26.0

I said, have you gotten the copyright from those people to do that? Have you actually reached out? Why should we do that? Why do we need to do that?

2:35.0

I said, well, because if you have recorded it, then you'll have it recorded, then you'll have the search for it, and then nobody else can do it, and then you'll dominate it.

2:43.0

And he was like, uh-huh. And I was like, that's wrong to do that. And he was like, okay. And we moved on.

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