Search Engine: Should this creepy search engine exist?
Will Be Wild
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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Search Engine is hosted by PJ Vogt and was named one of the top podcasts of 2023 by Time Magazine, The Economist, and New York Magazine (Vulture). Search Engine is an explainer show that tackles all kinds of questions, big and small. On this episode: who's behind these scammy text messages we've all been getting? To find more episodes of Search Engine or to submit a question to the show, head over to searchengine.show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi will be wild listeners this is PJ Vote I'm here to tell you about my show |
| 0:04.1 | it's called search engine each week we try to answer a question we have about the world |
| 0:08.6 | no question too big no question too small in case you want to it out, this is a short preview of one of our favorite episodes, |
| 0:16.1 | where we investigate perhaps the creepiest piece of technology I've come across in years. |
| 0:21.3 | It's the most powerful facial recognition software ever invented. |
| 0:25.2 | This is a story of the reporter who started looking into this tool and found out that |
| 0:30.0 | not only was the company behind it trying to hide their real identity, |
| 0:34.2 | once she started investigating, they started investigating her. |
| 0:38.8 | It's a pretty crazy story. I'm excited to share it with you. And then Not all search engines are good. Some are morally dubious. A couple months ago I found myself using a morally dubious. A couple months ago, I found myself using a morally dubious search engine. |
| 1:16.4 | This search engine lives on a website. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm not going to tell you the name of it for reasons that will become clear. |
| 1:21.4 | But I am going to describe to you how it works. |
| 1:23.4 | So you open the site, you upload a photo of a person's face. |
| 1:30.0 | I can upload a photo of myself right now. |
| 1:33.0 | Wait about 30 seconds for the search to run, |
| 1:36.0 | and then I get taken to this page, |
| 1:38.0 | which includes all these different photos of my face |
| 1:41.0 | from all these different places on the internet. |
| 1:43.0 | I can click on any of the photos and it'll take me to the site where the photo lives. |
| 1:47.6 | This is Chazam for faces. |
| 1:50.7 | If I put it in a stranger's face, I'll almost always get their real name, because it'll |
| 1:55.6 | take me to one of their social media profiles. From there, I can typically use a different |
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