Q&A with Sundar Pichai on search's future, seeing “overall query growth”, AI agents, not altering search rankings or AI Mode answers to favor Trump, and more
Lots in this Decoder with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, but perhaps most importantly he told me Google won't adjust search rankings or AI Mode answers to favor Trump and get out of DOJ antitrust troubles www.theverge.com/decoder-podc... [image]
My Monday morning listens were all key Google execs doing exclusive podcast interviews (Hard Fork, Decoder, Digiday) to write its narrative post AI launch firehose last week. Note: closing arguments on search antitrust remedies are this Friday. The good, the bad, ugly. /1
First, the good. Nilay Patel did an outstanding Decoder interview of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Highly recommend. Get yourself to 20 minutes in where Patel starts to dig in on impact to media, the open web and tussles with government/law. /2
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome | The head of Google discusses the next AI platform shift and how it could change how we use the internet forever.