How Did Google Come of Age?

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Google was created to help people deal with things that they couldn't remember. It's an answer machine, which i think is not as valuable as a question machine. The two trillion dollar company made 20 plus billion dollars of revenue in surchacts last year. There are several products and the current one is like the third incarnation of how sir chad should work.

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost--search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers rather than searchers. Ramaswamy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Google works and why he started a new search engine, Neeva, with a different business model.