Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, was interviewed by Emily Chang at Bloomberg before the big Google I/O event. They talked a lot about a lot of things, but there was 25-second clip where they spoke about core search quality. As you can imagine, he didn’t say much but he did respond.

Emily Chang asked at the 8:10 mark into the video interview:

Sundar Pichai replied:

Here is the video embed:

You should all probably watch the full interview where he doubles down on:

Links to publishers being important in the new version of Google Search (aka SGE)
Ads won’t be an issue in SGE, so the stock market should not worry
And a lot more about AI and the future of Google

Emily briefly referenced the German study and then some articles about the poor search quality some have seen at Google Search recently.

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