The Man That Destroyed Google Search
Better Offline25 Apr 2024

The Man That Destroyed Google Search

In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to the outright decay of the most important website on the internet.

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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

In part one of this week’s series, Ed Zitron explains how the AI bubble could be so much worse than the dot com bubble - and how people are too flippant about the carnage caused by the 2000s telecommu...

27 Jan 13min

Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff

Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff

To kick off this week’s Better Offline Dot Com Special, Ed Zitron is joined by The Register’s Matt Rosoff to talk about what it was like to be in the tech industry during the last time the markets got...

26 Jan 55min

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four

In the final part of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how ignoring the horrifying margins and destructive practices of the AI industry...

23 Jan 34min

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three

In part three of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how the imaginary demand for AI compute is setting up every single data center devel...

22 Jan 31min

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two

In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadcom and NVIDIA are swindling stockholders with the help o...

21 Jan 44min

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One

In part one of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through the enshittification of the stock market, where toxic companies appreciate in value de...

20 Jan 35min

Monologue: The Year Ahead

Monologue: The Year Ahead

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI. Save $10 off a ye...

16 Jan 7min

The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke

The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about AMD, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel’s CES keynotes - and how the tech industry has turned its back on consumers in favor of g...

14 Jan 1h

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