0091: Google Is Washed

About this episode

The episode discusses the decline of Google Search and its competition with social media platforms for information retrieval.

“Google is washed” sounds like a joke, but it points to something a lot of us feel: Google Search doesn’t hit the way it used to. We kick things off by unpacking why researching restaurants, travel, recipes, and even IT fixes is drifting toward TikTok and Instagram, where you get proof fast instead of digging through pages of ads, SEO junk, and half-helpful AI summaries. From there we zoom into what Google is doing to fight back, including Android updates and Gemini becoming the new starting...

People in this episode

Hosts: BobbyD, D'Hustle, Raymond

Topics covered

• Google Search
• social media
• restaurant research
• travel
• AI
• technology updates

Keywords

• Google
• TikTok
• Instagram
• search engine
• AI summaries
• Android updates
• Gemini

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, TikTok, Instagram

Products: Android, Gemini

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