Google Search
part of Google includes Google Search Console
8 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2022 by Yuriy Timen · said 102 times in 46 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (22), Ethan Smith (15), Timothy Davis (6), Bret Taylor (4), Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (3), Luc Levesque (3), Jonathan Becker (3), Gina Gotthilf (3)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 43 mentions in 12 episodes 4 per episode
- The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
- How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps
- 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 32 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
- Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Chris Miller
- LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
- Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
- How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google Search, oldest first
Sep 1, 2022
Paid acquisition serves only two purposes: profitable returns or rapid learning
“So there are two reasons to do paid. I mean, I'm oversimplifying, but I think people will hopefully appreciate the oversimplification. Number one, because it actually like drives, drives returns. Add efficient unit economics, whatever that may mean for your co…”
Sep 24, 2023 positive
Apr 28, 2024 positive
Beykpour: Perplexity is one of few consumer AI products that retains
“It's like one of the only non-development tool AI products that actually has retained. A lot of people try and consumer AI products that just aren't really, haven't retained, but perplexity is one that is a, it's a daily driver for me.”
Jul 20, 2025
Mann: ASL-3 models provide significant uplift for creating bioweapons
“We've done, we've testified to Congress about how models can do biological uplift in terms of, you know, making new pandemics using the models, and that's an A-B test against Google search. That's like the previous state-of-the-art on uplift trials, and we fou…”
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Oct 10, 2025 neutral
Stein: Google AI executes query fan-out with dozens of background searches
“When our AI constructs a response it's actually trying to, it does something called query fan out. Where the model uses Google search as a tool to find, to do other querying. So maybe you're asking about specific shoes. It'll add and append all of these other …”
Oct 10, 2025 negative
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Stein: AI expands overall search queries without hurting core Google Search
“And what we're finding is that AI is expansionary. And so there's actually just more and more questions being asked and curiosity that can be fulfilled now with AI. And so that's where you get the growth. And so all like the core Google search isn't really cha…”