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Stein: Google Shopping has 50B products updated 2B times hourly
“There's fifty billion products in the Google shopping graph, for instance, they're updated two billion times an hour by merchants with live prices, right? You have two and fifty million places in maps.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 11:23 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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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 …”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 15:51 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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Stein: Google launched Search Live conversational voice out of Labs
“Funny enough, we actually just launched search live actually out of labs this week. And so you can talk to search in a live AI setting, which is conversational voice, voice on when you're driving, you can just talk all the knowledge I talked about, what you ca…”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 1:13:11 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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Stein: Google Lens visual searches grow year-over-year across billions of queries
“Google lens, one of the fastest growing products out there, it's growing. Year over year increase in visual searches, which is already like a massive scale. It's like billions and billions and billions of searching in that way.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 9:07 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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Stein: Snapchat initially did not permit photo uploads from camera roll
“Snapchat at the time didn't allow you to upload photos. It was like, you have to use a snap camera.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 33:09 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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Stein: Instagram sharing shifted from public feeds to Stories and DMs
“You know, certainly in Instagram, there's been a big shift over the years of sharing into public, very large broadcast posts and feed into these more lightweight formats, like stories and DM, actually private sharing as well.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 36:42 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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