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The dawn of search engines

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May 26, 2025 3:00 am

Episode art for Understood: Who broke the internet? Kelsey Cueva/CBC

Kelsey Cueva/CBC

Episode art for Understood: Who broke the internet?

Kelsey Cueva/CBC

Today on the show, we bring you a special episode from the Understood feed at CBC podcasts. It’s an excerpt from a series called Who Broke the Internet hosted by Cory Doctorow. The four part series details his criticisms on the state of the modern internet and what we can do about it.

From his conversations with Eric Corly the publisher of 2600, an iconic hacker magazine, best known under his hacker name Emmanuel Goldstein, to Clive Thompson a tech and culture writer to Steven Levy the author of “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives” this excerpt digs into how search engines started.

You can listen to more of the podcast here.

Related episodes:
The hack that almost broke the internet (Apple / Spotify)

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