TEH Podcast

TEH Podcast


TEH 222: Can they see you? AI and screenshots. Search engine agendas.

May 29, 2024

In This Episode: Can they see you? AI and screenshots. Search engine agendas.


This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.


(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)


Top Stories

  • 1:00 LN: The Recall feature will remember everything you’ve seen on your PC


  • 6:00 GR: Mac ChatGPT App

    • 8:00 AI Voices and legal issues
    • 13:30 Singer clones


  • 14:00 LN: Reactions in the comments on YouTube video about search engines.

    • 15:30 Controversy!!!! 
    • 16:30 Not an ad for Kagi
    • 17:00 Not everyone uses or wants to use an adblocker
    • 19:45 YouTube premium
    • 20:00 They’re clearly marked as “ads” …not

      • Many people report that they didn’t realize the thing they clicked on was an ad


    • 21:30 AI results. Love/hate?
    • 25:00 One concern: people using ChatGPT instead.
    • 27:00 Google Web results


    • 32:15 GR: Does google have an editorial agenda or is it an algorithm making it look like an agenda?

      • Algorithms!


    • 36:00 Should “Nike” bring up sneakers or greek gods?
    • 39:00 Do alternatives have an agenda? Like TikTok

      • 44:00 Yandex… headquartered in Moscow


    • 46:30 Forget the ads, the actual results are getting worse.

      • Many people blame SEO for crappy sites making it to the top




  • 50:55 GR: Update from last week: Amazon may be doing AI after all. (“Titan”)


  • 55:00 GR: Site attacks really ramp up over holidays
  • 57:40 GR: Atari Buys Intellivision

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