Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s description of search as a future “agent manager” made headlines this week after an hour-long interview with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison.
As SEJ’s Roger Montti reported, Pichai described a version of search where users have “many threads running” and are completing tasks rather than browsing results.
But the interview covered more than that one quote. Throughout the conversation, Pichai laid out a timeline, identified the barriers slowing adoption, described how he already uses an internal agent tool, and…

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