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Google is many things, but most of the time it’s a verb: it means searching the Internet for information. But what if it was An AI agent performs the search? Are you doing this proactively? Without even telling you? In the world that Google imagines, in which much of the actual searching on Google happens without your prompting, involvement, or even knowledge, can you even call Google a search engine anymore?
These are the hard questions we get to This episode of vertcast. But first, we have some news to talk about. there Corporate news — which really boils down to “nothing important changes” — and there’s some exciting podcast news. vertcast Goes daily! Starting June 1, we’ll be in your feeds five days a week. We’d love to hear all your thoughts, story ideas, feedback, deep fears, and concerns about all of this, so call us at 866-VERGE11 or email us at vergecast@theverge.com.
Then we move on to the news of the week. Mostly from Google I/O, where Nilay went to cover the event and chat with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Nilay and David discuss all the ways search is changing, why Google seems so confident in its place in the AI ecosystem, and what it all means for the future of the web. And frankly, whether the Web still has a future.
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