David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

But it's this is how you get people into the ecosystem. voice-verified

And Google just has moves upon moves that no one else has. voice-verified

And so I I kind of think Google can be third best and still win. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And I also think there is a strong chance that as keeps happening, Google will find a way to leapfrog the other two for 10 minutes until somebody leapfrog. voice-verified

Like this is just voice-verified

what these three companies have done for years. voice-verified

And I don't know of a reason to assume that Google is like out of this fight. voice-verified

Yeah, no, I I agree with that. voice-verified

I think Google shipped this home speaker and then I think promptly forgot that it existed, which is a very Google thing to do. voice-verified

I don't either. voice-verified

I've been reading a bunch about Google Plus again recently, as I am wont to do from time to time. voice-verified

You love reading about Google Plus. voice-verified

I think Google Plus is one of the most fascinating moments in certainly my career covering technology because it's it was the other time that Google did what it is doing right now, which is take a thing that it believes in and try to smush it into every other product that it made. voice-verified

Social was the future of everything. voice-verified

They were going to rebuild everything. voice-verified

Every single one of their products around this social network that was not going to just be a social network. voice-verified

It was going to invade every other like what if we make Google Calendar a social network? voice-verified

Was the Google Plus plan? voice-verified

Like that was literally what they were doing. voice-verified

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