50 episodes
Search Engine PJ Vogt, Audacy, Jigsaw
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4.9 • 175 Ratings
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Named a best podcast of 2023 by Vulture, Time, The Economist, & Vogue.
No question too big, no question too small. On Search Engine, host PJ Vogt answers the kinds of questions you might ask the internet when you can't sleep. If you find the world bewildering, but also sometimes enjoy being bewildered by it, we're here for you. Edited by Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
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How much glue should you put in your pizza?
An internet breaking news story. As we told you last week, Google has begun offering AI-generated answers to search questions. But some answers, it turns out, are strange. Users were told, for instance, that glue was an appropriate ingredient for homemade pizza. We talk to reporter Katie Notopolous, who baked and ate her own homemade glue pizza.
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How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)
Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to Platformer’s Casey Newton about why this is happening, why publishers are nervous, and about a secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.
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Search Engine - How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 1)
Platformer - Google's broken link to the web
404 Media - Why Google is shit now
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Should this creepy search engine exist?
After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn.
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What do trigger warnings actually do?
A listener’s brother dies by suicide, and afterwards, she finds herself angered by trigger warnings about suicide. She wants to know — are these actually helping other people? Or is it just something we do because we think we’re supposed to?
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Where's my flying car?
Since not long after the car was invented, we have wanted to stick wings on them and fly them through the sky. This week, we interview writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus about the surprisingly long history of actual, working flying cars in America. Plus, what it's like to actually fly in a modern flying car.
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Do political yard signs actually do anything?
It’s an election year and so Search Engine’s campaign desk is answering the questions you really want answers to: all the political yard signs in your neighbors’ yards … do they do anything besides make everyone like each other less?
An experiment that definitively answers this question.
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Customer Reviews
Good podcast
I know podcasts. This is a good podcast. And I would know, because, as I said, I know a thing or two about netball.
Definitely make time to listen to at least one.
I like this podcast so much I actually redownloaded the apple podcast app (I listen on Spotify) just so I could leave a 5 star review.
I started with the bitcoin episode (Where did the $8mil go?) and was hooked.
I love that the topics can be quirky, but are also so well researched, insightful and very human.
Thanks PJ & Sruthi - keep it coming!
Search Engine is a gift
I was ecstatic to see PJ and Sruthi back with a new show and as soon as I discovered it, binged all the existing episodes. I listened on my way to work, while walking my dog, on a flight home from Singapore… my wife and I even agreed on “Astronaut time” at home where we go into our headphones and pretend we’re alone at home while we do our own things (a perfect introvert recharge) to listen more.
I know a show takes a team and there’s a lot of brilliant people working on this show - thank you everyone - but my favourite part is absolutely PJ’s style, takes/wrap ups and deep insights. PJ is a fantastic, entertaining, witty, intelligent (and yet wholly relatable) host and the topics Search Engine covers are just, incredible. So clever. I’ve listened to some episodes twice; Search Engine becomes a sort of comfort listen in the way you drift back to the sitcom you watch when you were 20.
I don’t subscribe to any other types of media (yet - the latest episode has inspired me to change), but am stoked to have Incognito Mode and hope many more people listen and subscribe so we can have MORE SEARCH ENGINE! 💖