The Man That Destroyed Google Search

04/25/24 • 30 min

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In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to the outright decay of the most important website on the internet.

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All Zone Media. Hello, and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host ed zig Tron. Well, and in the next two episodes, I'm going to tell you the names some of the people responsible for destroying the Internet. And I'm going to start on February fifth, twenty nineteen, when Ben Gomes, Google's former head of Search, well, he had a problem. Jerry Dishler, then the VP and GM of Ads at Google, and Shiv Van Carterman, then the VP of Engineering Search