Interview
On AI Mode and the future of links

Robby Stein
VP of Product, Google
16 minHosted by Kim Isenberg
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Robby Stein is VP of Product at Google Search, where he leads AI Overviews, AI Mode, search ranking and Google Lens. Before Google, he built Stories, Reels and Close Friends at Instagram, co-founded Stamped (acquired by Yahoo) and led product at Artifact.
Kim Isenberg talks with him about how AI Mode is changing the way people search, what Google learned from scaling AI Overviews, and what this means for links on the web.
Topics
- How AI Mode is changing the way billions search
- What Google learned from scaling AI Overviews
- His time at Instagram and the decision to build Stories
Kim Isenberg is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Superintelligence, an AI newsletter published every weekday.
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