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Inside The Mind of Google
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Inside The Mind of Google

45 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Google's rise from a search engine into one of the most powerful companies on the planet is the subject of this CNBC production, which traces the company's history from its founding through its expansion into mobile phones and beyond. The film lays out how AdWords, Google's advertising auction system, became the financial engine behind the company's profits, turning search queries into a business model worth billions. It also examines the privacy concerns that came with that model, asking what it means for one company to hold so much data about what people search, click, and buy. The move into mobile phones gets its own segment, framed as a calculated bet on where computing was heading next. CNBC's approach favors a business-press retrospective over technical detail: strategic decisions, market position, and revenue take priority over how the underlying technology actually works. The result is a straightforward account of how a search engine became a financial juggernaut.