Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

It doesn't matter what operating system, what hardware vendor, what browser.

It all goes back to the same place.

It all goes to Google.

Why are we bribing Apple $20 billion a year not to enter the search market if we're not going to exploit the fact that no one can find any other search engines to make it worse?

And so it's very easy to make it worse.

There's things like query stemming, where if someone does a search for trousers, you run a parallel search for pants, and then you merge the results.

There's spell check, right?

Someone misspells a search term and you make a guess, and you just automatically fix it.

Well, maybe you don't automatically fix it.

Or even like context awareness, right?

So like...

We're recording this right after the attempted shooting at the White House press corps dinner.

So someone searches for that.

Well, you know that there's a news item about it.

So you put those at the top rather than the generic best link for White House press corps dinner.

And you just turn that off.

And now people have to search two or three times.

and you have bengals going like well i didn't miss you know all those like little league games and my kids to make the search wars i believe in what we do here and you have probably got ragavan basically saying money talks and walks and you know that i'm sure praga ragavan was not the first person at google to realize that if you made search worse people would have to search more than once and make more money but he was the first guy to win that argument

And my thesis is he won the argument because we allowed Google to buy all of its competitors and buy all the shelf space and bribe Apple $20 billion a year not to enter the search market.

And then we created the conditions in which the worst person at Google's worst idea was the most money-making one.

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