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Search Engine is the podcast that tries to answer the questions that keep you up at night. A podcast made by humans that provides the answers that neither artificial intelligence nor actual search engines really can. Named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by Vulture, Time, The Economist, and Vogue.

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Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow award-winning podcast, is back. Unlike previous seasons, writer and host Jed Lipinski brings listeners new episodes every week with no end in sight. Each episode of Go...

· 9 min 16 sec

The story of the first people who invented democracy, and what it did to them.What's Wrong With Democracy? by Loren J. Samons IISupport the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener dat...

· 43 min 28 sec

What if there was an event in the future, the outcome of which you couldn’t personally control, but it was still causing you anguish?This week, we talk to an ordained Zen priest and teacher to get som...

· 1 hr 8 min 34 sec

A year ago, we saw a stand-off between OpenAI's non-profit board and its leader, Sam Altman. Since then, the board has been reshuffled, Altman has consolidated power, and under his leadership, some st...

· 59 min 6 sec

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What People Say About the Show

"I love explanatory journalism, and it’s explanatory journalism at its best. Simple questions that unfold into wondrous answers and, more than that, explorations."

- Ezra Klein, host of The Ezra Klein Show

"I like that Search Engine is still figuring out what it can do with this new podcast form it's invented, and that every time I download an episode I really don't know what to expect. What's rarer than that? In podcasts or in anything?"    - Ira Glass, host of This American Life

 "Search Engine’s particular spark comes from the way the team injects a sense of genuine discovery into the act of unspooling. This is a show that works to give you a good time, always hustling for your attention as it peels back layer after layer."- Vulture, "Search Engine Is the Spiritual Successor to Reply All"

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