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The words 'clever' and 'death' crop up less often than 'Google' in conversation. That’s according to researchers at the University of Lancaster in the UK. It took just two decades for Google to reach this cultural ubiquity. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google’s founders – were not, initially, interested in designing a better way to search. Their Stanford University project had a more academic motivation. Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of a technology which might shape our access to knowledge for generations to come.
Producer: Ben Crighton Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
(Image: Google logo and search box on a screen. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
111 episodes
Manage episode 172172286 series 1303176
The words 'clever' and 'death' crop up less often than 'Google' in conversation. That’s according to researchers at the University of Lancaster in the UK. It took just two decades for Google to reach this cultural ubiquity. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google’s founders – were not, initially, interested in designing a better way to search. Their Stanford University project had a more academic motivation. Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of a technology which might shape our access to knowledge for generations to come.
Producer: Ben Crighton Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
(Image: Google logo and search box on a screen. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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