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522. Is Google Getting Worse?

Freakonomics Radio

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Introduction

Ryan McDevitt: Google was a revelation because it made this information accessible. He says the power of that revelation faded as revelations do and we all began to take Google for granted. Today on Freakonomics Radio, how did Google come to dominate web search in the first place? What happened when Google essentially became a monopoly?

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