Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a product called Google Classroom.
It'll take a while to pay off.
But in the meantime, they had this crisis, right?
And so you see these two factions forming up.
One's led by this guy, Prabhagar Raghavan.
It's an ex-McKinsey guy.
He's an engineer, but a business guy.
And he's in charge of revenue for Google search.
And his rival is this guy, Ben Gomes, who's like an old school Googler who started building out their servers when it was like a computer under a desk and oversaw all of the data centers in the world and is now in charge of Google search technology.
So Google search revenue, Google search technology.
Prabhagaur Raghavan's got a great idea.
He says, we can grow search revenue,
by making search worse.
So you have to search more than once so that we can show you more ads.
No, Corey, you can't be serious.
And he's like, and Ben Gomes is like, but that's a terrible idea.
I didn't give my life to this company for this.
And he's like, but...
We spend more than $20 billion every year buying all the shelf space for search, right?
If there's a search box that you encounter in the wild, it's wired to Google servers.
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