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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the early days of internet search engines, Google set itself apart by providing a simple service. A list of links, inviting you to explore the websites that best matched your query. It was a portal to the rest of the internet. But over the last two decades, that mission has changed. Does Google search still take you to the best result for your query? Or does it point users back to its own suite of products? Guest: Adrianne Jeffries, investigative journalist at The Markup. Host Celeste Headlee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The subcommittee will come to order without objection.
0:07.7	The chair is authorized to declare recess at any of the...
0:09.9	A few weeks back, the heads of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google appeared before a House
0:15.1	Judiciary subcommittee on anti-trust law.
0:18.1	They were there to testify about the power wielded by their respective companies in relation
0:22.6	to their competition.
0:24.5	It was the first time that the CEOs of these giant tech companies appeared together before
0:29.4	Congress, and Congress had a lot of questions.
0:32.8	The hearing took five hours.
0:35.4	So are you saying that these people aren't being truthful?
0:38.6	Google's response was to threaten to delist Yelp entirely.
0:41.7	You think they would choose to stay in a relationship that is characterized by bullying, fear, and panic?
0:50.9	Towards the end of the hearing, Representative Pramila Jaiapal directed a question to
0:54.9	Sundar Pachai, Google's CEO.
0:57.7	Do you want to know if Google search was prioritizing Google owned products over their competitors?
1:03.3	Is Google steering advertising revenue to Google search?
1:08.1	Congressman, users come to Google search.
1:11.0	It is that traffic, and that's where our source of revenue comes from.
1:15.6	So we are focused on providing users the information they are looking for.
1:20.1	We work hard to earn.
1:21.2	That answer didn't exactly make headlines, but Chai didn't even finish before Representative
1:26.4	Jaiapal asked her next question.
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