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Charlie Rose Eric Schmidt

Gregory Ferenstein · 11.8K views · 2013-01-03 · 0:32

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A short Charlie Rose interview clip of Eric Schmidt discussing Google's direction for search. It is remembered for his remark that returning more than one result is a bug.

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Quoted, often critically, to argue that Google aims for a single answer and to compare it with ChatGPT-style answers.

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verisimi · 2025-09 · Criticism

> And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources). Verification is the stick, AI is the carrot. More than one answer is a bug - Eric Schmidt [VIDEO]

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kkoncevicius · 2023-01 · Reference

This snippet from an old interview seems to be relevant: [VIDEO] In words: Schmidt here is saying that Google returning lots of pages is a "bug" and the future of search is understanding what the user wants and providing a single best answer.

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yusufnb · 2023-01 · Reference

Here's an old video where Eric Schmidt mentions Google's goal of being like ChatGPT (in a way) - [VIDEO] Google changed its course along the way!

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