Freakonomics podcast investigates whether Google Search is 'getting worse'

“So here’s my recent-ish experience with Google, having used Google for a million years,” host Stephen Dubner says during the Freakonomics episode, which you can listen to below:

“But in the last year-and-a-half or two, I felt more and more that — whereas in the old days, a Google search would typically produce results that were really useful to me if I wanted to learn something about the search topic — these days, it feels to me that a Google search will more typically produce results that are useful if I want to buy something related to the search topic. And then I find myself going down further and then yeah, I find what I’m after.

Guests on this episode include Google Search vice president Liz Reid, as well as a past Google executive . They discuss, among other things, why Google shows the ads that it does. And why the search giant increasingly serves up the answer to queries directly within Google Search rather than spinning users off to someone else’s website to get that answer or the content that they seek.Andy Meek is a reporter who has covered media, entertainment, and culture for over 20 years. His work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Forbes, and The Financial Times, and he’s written for BGR since 2015.

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