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Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
- ▶ 19:13 Daniel Litt Like, it's primarily kind of a substitute for Google or something. 2 times in the scene
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 15:57 Stein Overtoom Friends or the people in your study club, like if this is real and then, uh, or they Google it
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 58:53 Qasar Younis Uh, Google still succeeded through, you know, search and YouTube and, and, and other web apps and other folks learned and used open source products and then ultimately closed source products and ultimately venture backed products.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 18:19 Benedict Evans There doesn't seem to be sort of levers you can pull and a strategy plate, a position you can get into where Instagram is, or YouTube is, or Google search is.
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 34:55 Steven Sinofsky But what happened with the internet was the net result of everybody finding it caused us to make better documentation, but it also caused Google search to be better at finding the information that it needed, which then completely changed…
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 31:57 Anish Acharya And if you look at the trends around how people are using ChatGPT at scale, it's still, you know, homework and Google-like queries and a little bit of companionship.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 17:03 unnamed speaker You know, one of the things, uh, that has been significantly observable is, uh, the number of public companies who've reported a decline in, um, referral traffic and engagement, um, largely because, you know, with Google search now,… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 1:10:57 Marc Andreessen If you do a Google search on, it's like,
How AI Agents Will Transform in 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 5:06 Stephanie Deng You want to be one of the first search results back from Google.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 9:01 Benedict Evans Like Google needed like a separate blog search.
- ▶ 44:02 Benedict Evans But basically, for Google search, Google search is search, and the web search is just means more people doing more search more, more of the time. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 5:54 Marc Andreessen I mean, among the companies you created turned out to be the company that created basically the Google search model.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 23:51 Justine Moore Like I have the Google app.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 44:56 Anish Acharya You know, what are the implications of a new front door for the internet, which was Google search for 20 years.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 52:30 Steven Sinofsky And of course, you just see it when you use Google search.
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 30:02 Steven Sinofsky And so what I'm looking at with, with Google is not, like, can they present all the technologies in the context of Google search and ads?
What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
- ▶ 20:50 David George Yeah, it's the experience of Google search today, right?
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 35:19 Olivia Moore Like, if you can add that as a button on a Google search, like,
AI: The Ultimate Healthcare Hire
- ▶ 6:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, and I mean, you just spoke to, like, this idea of Dr.
How AI Will Transform Accounting: A $100B Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 9:49 unnamed speaker You could do that on Google, or you could do that through one of the more legacy software tools, but, um, using LMS to do that, you can get a really robust opinion.
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 3:46 Alex Immerman The average search on Google is two to three keywords. 2 times in the scene
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 3:03 Marc Andreessen Um, do, do not do a Google search, um, on Goatsy.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 33:48 Marc Andreessen Right, and, and, and, and what they basically say is like, look, this market's going to be like the search market was like, which is, you know, of course you're always just going to ask Google all your search, like, there's no market for… 2 times in the scene
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 38:37 Marc Andreessen I mean, Google is an example, like Google search is still, you know, some giant percentage of the revenue. 2 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 24:14 Chris Dixon Most of your searches now are Google, Google properties. 2 times in the scene
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 57:04 Marc Andreessen And look, I actually think like, uh, search, uh, search engines, like Google had a, had a, uh, had a, had an impact on, on actually the quality of screenplays, which is, you know, like, it's, it's a lot easier to write a screenplay that… 2 times in the scene
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 3:19 Kieran Flanagan So I think certainly in search, I've really dug in there and there are lots of examples of the click through rate decrease in and the amount of traffic you get from Google search pages.
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 47:57 Steph Smith And just as a fun fact, if people, uh, Google, there was, uh, once a, a lawsuit or a court case between
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 1:05:48 Alex Fielding The version of Google that we had, and we were missing some volumes, unfortunately, which is why I'm so poorly versed on biology.
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 14:08 David Ulevitch It's software that sort of reads your screen, pays attention to all the work-related stuff, is really smart about ignoring all the personal stuff, and it's sort of like your own Google search engine that works with your team and highlights…
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 12:20 unnamed speaker Like Google is probably, Google search is probably the most defensible company right now.
a16z Podcast | Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks
- ▶ 30:23 Phil Dayan So if you Google Goldfinger attacks, he has a paper and a presentation.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 39:08 Frank Chen So it's kind of like Google autocomplete.
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 22:59 unnamed speaker Here's a fun Google search you can do for director of research and ethics in AI, and you'll see that there are hundreds of jobs that have sprung up, especially at the big companies that are really grappling with these issues, so there's a…
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 33:27 Chris Dixon The logic of the business model is sort of, it, it forces them at that point when, when things start to slow, like Google, like Google search.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 28:32 Andrew Chen In fact, if you spend a lot of time on google.com, you know, refining your searches and clicking around, that means actually the service is doing poorly.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 21:15 Chris Dixon Android, Twitter, Facebook, I think Google Search in a lot of ways can be seen as a platform because you build websites that get, you know, that get shown on the, in the search results.
a16z Podcast | What to Know about GDPR
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 30:13 Steven Sinofsky You know, like the thing about the Google search experience is that it was highly resilient to being wrong. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 28:25 Benedict Evans Running a national tax system, for example, is very different from doing a Google search.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 22:32 Benedict Evans And you could argue certainly that people look at these sort of fully automated systems like Google search or Facebook and so on and say, well, it's just fully automatic
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 1:03 Luis von Ahn You can think of, you know, even Google searches, some sort of very large ontology.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 25:06 Benedict Evans okay, you're now your Google search, you're at the same Google search you did five years ago, it's just now suddenly it's 15% better because of machine learning.
a16z Podcast | Boards, from Both Sides of the Table
- ▶ 9:33 Jennifer Tejada If you Google board composition, there's tons of research on it and what people are looking for, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 0:43 Sonal Chokshi We didn't coin the term by any means, but I did do a Google search at the time, and I only saw it used in a few places, and I remember having a little fight with the headline desk because the title of the op-ed is Why the Government Should…
- ▶ 3:11 Arun Sundararajan Like, you know, the value you get from Google searches, the value you get from sort of connecting with other people on Facebook.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 15:31 Benedict Evans Slightly irrelevant in the way that Google web search makes some web pages, like it sort of subsumes content into Google search.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 3:26 Benedict Evans I mean, I was thinking about this sort of historically, that there was, there was web search before Google, which was just text indexing, and it didn't work very well, and then there's PageRank, and suddenly web search works, and 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 21:16 Benedict Evans Whereas the problem with the search box in Messenger is the same as the problem with the search box in the App Store or the problem with Google search box, which is you can search for absolutely anything, and it will give you some kind of…
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:45 Marc Andreessen Or Google search will do great, um, as long as, you know, people don't, instead of searching, people just, like, ask Siri instead, right?
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 13:31 Joel Spolsky You type your problem, whatever problem you hit, you type into Google and you get a result hopefully from Stack Overflow if we've done our job. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 13:25 Benedict Evans Um, so they have, they, so their, their kind of core search product is, I think, completely unchallenged, really. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 9:48 Connie Chan So for example, like that Google search page, home page where there's a single search bar, that kind of design would not do as well in China.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 14:19 Marc Andreessen You can Google it if you haven't seen it.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 37:19 Alex Rampell And if you do a search for O to O on, on Google, everything is in Chinese.
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 41:24 David Pierce And it's, it's privacy versus convenience, and it's like, I'm gonna, the more I tell you, the better Google Now is, and the better Google Search is, and the better Gmail is, and all these things, whereas, but then it knows more about me,…
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 5:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and then you look at these things, you know, there's a lot of, you know, kind of, um, drama around, like, you know, privacy of your Google searches or privacy of your, uh, of your Facebook graph or whatever, but as a user, you're, it's…
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 7:43 Jim Gilliam It, like, like, literally Google the Liberty Way, and you will feel, see all the different rules, like, there's about, like, the length of skirts, and, like, the whole thing. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 5:19 Benedict Evans Better map directions and all sorts of things and better search results customized for you.
- ▶ 16:27 Benedict Evans Play to the bar, and so you never use Google Maps, and you don't have any meetings, so you don't use Calendar, and you use Exchange at Work, and like, how much all Google's really getting from you is web search. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
- ▶ 22:45 Orion Hindawi If you haven't dealt with your patches, you should be worried about kids that have access to Google, not nation states that want to attack you, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 14:43 Benedict Evans Um, but this is kind of the point, that Google has got search on all these devices.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 21:36 Benedict Evans Now, in the future, it may, of course, so all of this stuff is kind of changing, but again, Google sticks a Google search bar on the home screen of an Android device, and so if you want to find out about something, you're, um, how can I…
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 32:46 Balaji Srinivasan So for example, Google rankings, Apple's app store, Gmail spam filtering, PayPal and eBay fraud protection, Amazon reviews, um, these things already happening in the cloud, massive scale marketplaces where all the checks and balances, rare…
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 16:29 Benedict Evans And Google is a vast machine learning engine that spent 15 years stuffing, stuffing itself with data, and web search is an expression of that, just as, you know, buying books is an expression of Amazon as a logistics platform. 6 times in the scene
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
- ▶ 7:24 Alex Rampell So, ah, if you actually Google this, it's, it's fun to do. 2 times in the scene
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 31:50 Katie Haun You can Google it. 2 times in the scene
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 0:50 Alex Rampell So before TrialPay came along, uh, the main, the main, uh, exit valve for a lot of advertising was Google search.
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 20:15 Chris Dixon Uh, platforms and networks, and so, I, I'm including, by the way, operating systems, I think of as, they're kind of forms of networks, they're, they're, they're platforms of developer networks, so Windows, iOS, Android, Twitter, Facebook,…
When Biology Moves to Engineering
- ▶ 17:43 Vijay Pande Well, the way they can engineer this is that Omada can have a therapy that they can iteratively improve, engineered the way Google would improve its search algorithm.
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 6:51 Alex Rampell So here, I just went through Google and found a bunch of stories talking about how Apple Pay growth is slow.
Software Secures the World
- ▶ 18:39 Martin Casado So for example, even like on the consumer side, like Nest, so we'll see companies that come in and they'll say, listen, you can actually do a Google search on a video feed.
The End of Cloud Computing
- ▶ 2:28 Peter Levine When we do a Google search or whatever, you type something in on your phone, that little stream of information goes back to the cloud.
- ▶ 4:35 Peter Levine For that information to go back to the central cloud to get processed in the same way that a Google search gets processed in the cloud right now.
Chandra Krintz
- ▶ 3:51 Chandra Krintz We need Google search for crop disease.
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 13:36 Marc Andreessen You can Google it if you haven't seen it.