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The Creepy Line

Google has more than doubledits profits in the last year selling Internet advertising, but...

Google has more than doubled
its profits in the last year selling Internet advertising, but with Microsoft and Yahoo
gunning for its search engine users, fortunes can quickly change

Full Transcript

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Google has more than doubled its profits in the last year
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selling Internet advertising,
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but with Microsoft and Yahoo gunning for its search engine users,
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fortunes can quickly change.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:30
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Wandering Foot Productions

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Movie Summary

The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and how they do it.
This was really the first large-scale mechanism for targeted advertising. - The Creepy Line 00:07
This was really the first large-scale mechanism for targeted...
For example, I want to sell umbrellas. - The Creepy Line 00:05
For example, I want to sell umbrellas.
Well, Google could tell you exactly, you know, who is looking for umbrellas - The Creepy Line 00:09
Well, Google could tell you exactly, you know, who is lookin...
So, they could hook up the umbrella makers with people searching for umbrellas. - The Creepy Line 00:06
So, they could hook up the umbrella makers with people searc...
That is where Google gets more than 90% of its revenue. - The Creepy Line 00:06
That is where Google gets more than 90% of its revenue.
If you look at how they structured the company, it was structured so that - The Creepy Line 00:12
If you look at how they structured the company, it was struc...
Anybody else who bought into the company - The Creepy Line 00:07
Anybody else who bought into the company
So, there was this idealism that they said motivated them, - The Creepy Line 00:33
So, there was this idealism that they said motivated them,
They never even gave us a sense of what it meant, - The Creepy Line 00:14
They never even gave us a sense of what it meant,
Even their home page indicates to you that you're not being manipulated - The Creepy Line 00:22
Even their home page indicates to you that you're not b...
And so, everybody in that initial phase of excitement, of course, - The Creepy Line 00:13
And so, everybody in that initial phase of excitement, of co...
It was always kind of a generous thing, “We're gonna give you these great tools, - The Creepy Line 00:19
It was always kind of a generous thing, “We're gonna gi...
We know how to improve and optimize the world.” - The Creepy Line 00:20
We know how to improve and optimize the world.”
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and the rise of Facebook, and this notion - The Creepy Line 00:25
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and the rise of Facebook, an...
So, they very rapidly started to branch out into other areas. - The Creepy Line 00:06
So, they very rapidly started to branch out into other areas...
They were getting a lot of information from people using the search engine, - The Creepy Line 00:13
They were getting a lot of information from people using the...
So, they developed a browser, which is now the most widely - The Creepy Line 00:08
So, they developed a browser, which is now the most widely
By getting people to use Chrome, they were able now to collect information - The Creepy Line 00:17
By getting people to use Chrome, they were able now to colle...
Without using their browser, you want to know what people are doing, - The Creepy Line 00:08
Without using their browser, you want to know what people ar...
So, Google developed an operating system, which is called Android, - The Creepy Line 00:16
So, Google developed an operating system, which is called An...