{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Limitless: An AI Podcast","title":"How Multimodal AI Is Changing Search | Google’s VP of Product Robby Stein","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/414d14c1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2756,"description":"Google Search used to be “type a few words, get 10 blue links.” In this episode of Limitless, VP of Product Robby Stein joins Josh and Ejaaz to unpack how AI is quietly blowing up that mental model, and turning search into a multimodal, conversational system that can see, listen, and even act on your behalf.\nRobby explains why AI is “expansionary” rather than cannibalistic, how Gemini-powered models now issue their own Google searches and query live graphs behind the scenes, and why visual search via Lens is one of the fastest-growing ways people interact with the web. Along the way, he shares lessons from shipping Instagram Stories, digs into agents that can book your restaurant table or research the right safe for your documents, and talks candidly about ads, publisher traffic, and the responsibility that comes with sitting at the internet’s front door.\n\n------\n🌌 LIMITLESS HQ: LISTEN & FOLLOW HERE ⬇️\nhttps://limitless.bankless.com/\nhttps://x.com/LimitlessFT\n\n------\nTIMESTAMPS\n\n0:00 Intro\n0:56 AI-Driven Evolution of Search\n3:26 From Blue Links to AI Overviews\n7:58 Conversational Search as the New Mental Model\n10:58 Agents, Reservations & Doing Things For You\n14:15 Is AI Cannibalizing Search, or Growing It?\n16:52 Hardware, Glasses & Where Search Lives\n18:40 Under the Hood of Gemini-Powered Search\n21:46 Instagram Stories, Product Taste & Don’t Flip the UX Table\n26:15 Google’s Unique Edge vs. Other AIs\n28:14 Monetization and Advertising in AI Search\n30:25 Ad Principles and Experiments\n32:56 Integration of Gemini and Search\n36:04 How Gemini & Google Search Actually Work Together\n39:58 Personalized Recommendations and Transparency\n43:40 Future Vision of Search Across Devices\n46:21 Closing Thoughts\n\n------\nRESOURCES\n\nRobby Stein\nhttps://x.com/rmstein \n\n------\nNot financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:\nhttps://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9Lu_z789-IzrmA97ogEUWzbSPY69Dj70clUckomsGq8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iYjA3/N2UyODc0NjIzZWFh/NWU2ZDBjODE3MTQ0/ZTJmYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}