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In the early days, Google was just a search engine
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The Creepy Line

In the early days, Googlewas just a search engine

In the early days, Google
was just a search engine

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In the early days, Google was just a search engine.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:19
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.
All the search engine was initially was an index to what's on the Internet. - The Creepy Line 00:07
All the search engine was initially was an index to what...
The Internet was pretty small back then. They had a better index than other - The Creepy Line 00:09
The Internet was pretty small back then. They had a better i...
Page famously said that the point of Google is to get people on to Google - The Creepy Line 00:11
Page famously said that the point of Google is to get people...
The success of Google led to, in many ways the success of the open web - The Creepy Line 00:11
The success of Google led to, in many ways the success of th...
Google had developed this incredible technology called PageRank, - The Creepy Line 00:17
Google had developed this incredible technology called PageR...
And what PageRank does, is it spiders around the Internet instead of - The Creepy Line 00:08
And what PageRank does, is it spiders around the Internet in...
It’s taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the - The Creepy Line 00:25
It’s taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links be...
It's pretty simple. All you do is track people’s searches. - The Creepy Line 00:06
It's pretty simple. All you do is track people’s search...
Your search history is very, very informative. - The Creepy Line 00:06
Your search history is very, very informative.
That's gonna tell someone immediately whether you're Republican or Democrat, - The Creepy Line 00:09
That's gonna tell someone immediately whether you'...
It's gonna tell you thousands of things about a person over time, - The Creepy Line 00:08
It's gonna tell you thousands of things about a person ...
Did they go to a porn site? Did they go to a shopping site? - The Creepy Line 00:06
Did they go to a porn site? Did they go to a shopping site?
This information, essentially, are building blocks, - The Creepy Line 00:15
This information, essentially, are building blocks,
Google has more than doubled its profits in the last year - The Creepy Line 00:13
Google has more than doubled its profits in the last year
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...