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?
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?