Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web

Sundar said a few things here and there, but for the most part it felt like he was dodging questions or genuinely had no idea how to answer them.

Nilay did try and press him a few times, and I understand why - The Verge is also at the risk of losing visitors and that will affect their bottom line.

That aside, it just felt like Sundar didn’t have a clear way to answer the concerns.

He completely dodged the question of penalising websites with 90% traffic drop, and he had little to say in the way of Big Tech gobbling up everyone’s work for AI training but only paying the big publishers for it.

The next year is going to be an absolute slog when it comes to using Google Search. Sundar alludes to this by saying that they are now upgrading search systems to better identify interesting/useful content.

My understanding of that is that they are simply doing all this testing in real-time and if that means smaller publishers get pushed out - in their eyes it is a small price to pay.

Why Sundar suddenly takes a lot of interviews like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puu3kN9l7c

Is there an intentional strategy?