Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Every day, billions of searches flow through Google, making it not just the world’s most popular search engine, but one of history’s most valuable products. Yet for the first time in nearly 30 years, the company’s dominance is under threat. Generative artificial intelligence tools like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity are changing how people find information.
On the latest episode of the Bold Names podcast, Liz Reid, VP, head of Google Search, speaks to WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins about transforming search for the age of AI. After more than two decades inside the company, Reid says that Google has weathered disruption before and believes this moment will expand, not erode, how people explore the web.
But can Google Search survive in a world of AI chatbots and answer engines?
Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:21 Google’s AI Shift
2:41 Is Google playing catch-up?
7:55 Ad Revenue in AI Era
14:15 Does Google Face Innovator’s Dilemma?
16:00 Winners and Losers in AI Era
21:20 Dead Internet Theory
25:00 Future of Google Search
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com
#Tech #Business #WSJ
Every day, billions of searches flow through Google, making it not just the world’s most popular search engine, but one of history’s most valuable products. Yet for the first time in nearly 30 years, the company’s dominance is under threat. Generative artificial intelligence tools like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity are changing how people find information.
On the latest episode of the Bold Names podcast, Liz Reid, VP, head of Google Search, speaks to WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins about transforming search for the age of AI. After more than two decades inside the company, Reid says that Google has weathered disruption before and believes this moment will expand, not erode, how people explore the web.
But can Google Search survive in a world of AI chatbots and answer engines?
Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:21 Google’s AI Shift
2:41 Is Google playing catch-up?
7:55 Ad Revenue in AI Era
14:15 Does Google Face Innovator’s Dilemma?
16:00 Winners and Losers in AI Era
21:20 Dead Internet Theory
25:00 Future of Google Search
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com
#Tech #Business #WSJ
