The Google Empire

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In Land of the Giants: The Google Empire, Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz explore how a company that began with idealistic goals of creative experimentation and making useful products has turned into a worldwide power with enormous impact on the way we live. New episodes begin Tuesday, February 16th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In this season of Land of the Giants, sponsored by YXT.
0:03.2	This is what Google will apply!
0:06.0	This is what Google will apply!
0:08.4	We have an aspiration to be the best company in the world.
0:15.6	And if we don't have it, it cleans up at home.
0:18.2	We're not delivering on what we said we were going to deliver.
0:23.8	Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine.
0:28.8	Google promoted its own Google branded content over its rivals,
0:34.4	even though the rivals would otherwise have had top billing thrown organic search algorithm.
0:41.8	It wasn't supposed to be this way.
0:43.8	Google was supposed to be the happiest of the tech giants,
0:47.0	the one with a colorful logo on the fun doodles.
0:49.8	And a really ambitious vision.
0:51.8	Our mission is to organize the world's information,
0:54.2	make it universally accessible and useful.
0:56.6	That means that Google would basically understand everything in the world
1:00.2	and would understand exactly what you wanted and give you the right thing.
1:03.8	It's a company that started with lofty ideals.
1:06.4	Look, we have our core value.
1:08.4	It's don't be evil.
1:12.2	But as Google has grown,
1:13.4	those ideals have become harder to live up to.
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