Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets - June 16-30, 2026
Welcome to the June 16–30, 2026 edition of Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets. The nuggets are also available on YouTube.
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489: Hacking Google
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Congratulations Belgium. We'll win the cup next time America. Good effort! The more I speak with men the more I realize how different we are. The process is arduous. My life is a big departure from the standard. Ladies, you know. Aspiring princess I see you. Working with the men is necessary. My willingness to socialize with everyone grows by …
Another Google AI FAIL
Runs interference for The New York Times
I came across this long-running story about Finland repeatedly trying to convict this nice Finnish lady for a hate crime for quoting the Bible. (Discussed in my “5 Stories” podcast this week.). The upshot was that Finland’s Supreme Court acquitted her on hate speech charges regarding a Bible tweet, but convicted her in a 3-2 decision for “insulting” ga…
My favorite fact-checker, bullshit-detector and NYT myth-buster strikes again! Ata' girl!
I live in Silicon Valley, where AI was invented, and I can tell you, from living among the tech people that invented it, that they are idiots. Oh, they're good at writing code, but other than that, they have no common sense or knowledge about anything outside of a motherboard. Everyone is excited about AI, but something that comes from the mind of fools is not going to be "smarter than a human", or anything like that. My friend who had her own hedge fund told me, "AI is the next big thing that a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money on." Bet on it.
Our Questionable Google Searches
Predictive text is a window into the weird
Google is great at selling your data, stealing your intellectual property, and helping the government to spy on you. But did you know it can also answer questions?
My Google Search Results
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“What time does music camp run this year in HomeTown, NY?”
Why I Left Google
One year ago today, I handed in my resignation at Google.
Love your story, beautifully written. What was the pivotal moment you realized that you were gonna make it in the process though?
Breaking News: Google "Reads" Substack
An encouraging data point from the world of algorithmically mediated information
This note mainly goes out to fellow Substackers who have told me they feel their work often seems invisible to anyone beyond their subscribers.
Good news that Google reads substack. As an aside- I suppose Trump et al never promote anything political as part of the celebration (sarc).
Let me not google that
I’m asking you — for a reason.
If you know me in person, you should know that I’m going to routinely start asking you questions I think you know the answer to, if I haven’t already. I know this is aggressive, and it’s not that I don’t care that you’re busy, or that I don’t know Google exists. It’s that I care about our relationship, and our humanity …
GECCA: 4) THE GOOGLE MONSTER
A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Silicon Valley
Upon awakening in Palo Alto, or Gecca, Van Stein and I haul our sorry selves around the corner to Starbucks on University Avenue.
The Google Maps Strategy Most Contractors Ignore, Google Rewards Consistency, Not Luck
Hi , How do you rank #1 on Google Maps in a competitive market?
The Google Maps Strategy Most Contractors Ignore, Google Rewards Consistency, Not Luck
Hey, How do you rank #1 on Google Maps in a competitive market?
Google SAIF: The Agent Security Map
Google’s Secure AI Framework draws the full agent attack surface, names the risks, and hands you the controls. A vendor did the boring, useful work for once.
TL;DR: The Google SAIF agent security map is a diagram of the entire agent attack surface, broken into four components, with named risks and mapped controls at every node. It’s SAIF 2.0, shipped in 2…
I appreciated the idea that SAIF “names the risks and hands you the controls”, because that's usually where governance conversations either become actionable or stay abstract/high level. I think that operating detail is what turns a security framework into something people can run.
Thank you "tox", exceptional article
How Google May 'Understand' Unique Content
While machines will never truly understand content the way some of us do, Google's contextual link information gain patent gives away some clues
Thanks to Rand’s excellent research and Barry’s expletive-laden ranting, we know that Google processes over five trillion searches each year. Trillion. Per day that’s 13.7 billion. Per second, 158,000.
> Publishers that can demonstrate they have an audience outside of SEO are being ‘rewarded.’ Although I suspect you could replace rewarded with crushed a little more slowly.
I appreciate the optimistic approach here, but considering that's Google who we're talking about, I'd hurry finding other and owned ways to talk to my audience because I expected the "crushed" part coming way faster than "slowly".
But hey, maybe it's just me very caustic with Google... 🤷🏻♂️
The Problem with Google Ads
You don't need to win the whole internet to have a thriving law practice.
I recently got an amazing referral from a law school classmate. During my meeting with the client he said,
Lying Your Way Into Someone’s Google Account
The Reckless Ben/Bricks & Minifigs fight shows bad-faith accusations becoming access to private Google data and that capital ~of any size~ is given preferential treatment.
Great article. It begs the question, is it just the legal status as a corporation that triggers this presumption of protection from the state or do ownership aesthetics matter as well or more? Presumably, Reckless Ben is legally incorporated as well. Appearing like an individual, incorporated or not, seems to garner prejudice from the system. This prejudice reinforces the idea that the ruling ideology of the capitalist class, neo-liberalism, in which our highest priority is professed to be commodified self identity, works in their favor to keep us oppressed and uncompetitive. The people at large need to incorporate I suppose.
So what is the solution?????
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Google Search as the One Who Knows
Recently, I have found that the information I get from Google searches is often completely wrong or highly misleading. For instance, I was seeking to find out when the movie Citizen Kane was playing near me, and I was told the location and time of the showing, but it was wrong. This may appear to be a minor inconvenience, yet it is just one example of a…
The Google Update You Might Have Missed
Bunnings, Adore Beauty, Kogan, The Iconic, and Petbarn sign up to new retail protocol
Welcome to Connected Commerce Decoded, the next evolution of ArkticBytes.
The loyalty data point buried in here might be the most disruptive part of UCP: in the Merchant Center Next audits we run for large retailers, the product catalog is rarely the real gap, it's the disconnect between the loyalty engine and the feed that actually reaches Google. If agentic commerce engines start weighting inventory selection by a shopper's loyalty tier, retailers who never unified those two systems will lose visibility without understanding why. I'd be curious whether Bunnings or Petbarn are already tracking what share of discovery is coming from agentic surfaces versus traditional search, since that number should be driving next year's budget allocation.
We Jailbroke Google Search With One Sentence
AI search is not search. It's an instruction-following system with no hard boundary between data and commands.
You probably saw the headlines last week. DuckDuckGo’s AI told users that Donald Trump died of rabies on June 7th, 2026, bitten by Vice President JD Vance, who had himself been infected on the advice of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., because rabies supposedly grants “superpowers.” Citations included. Every word fabricated.
It's really exciting to see this written about on Substack because SEO experts and Facebook marketing experts have already begun to build things exactly like the Reddit thread but for individual small businesses. Regular people can't comprehend how quickly this "seeding info" was grasped and weaponized by ppl who have zero morals. It's exciting because it means the internet is already much more horribly contaminated by poor info than many realize and ppl are going to have to go back to relying on actual communication soon. Your 83 yr old neighbor is going to be recognized as a better source for who the best mechanic and the best new author and the best tomato gardener over Google soon and if you can't be a human who maintains relationships with real ppl you're going to have to change.
I start with sort of a question on google and then just start chatting and it will keep going for hours and oddly will keep trying to tie in to the original question that started the whole conversation which can be kinda fun, depending on what you asked.
Will Your Substack Rank in Google Search?
One of the questions I’ve been hearing more often lately is this:
Inside a Google Data Center Open House
I went for answers. They offered sugar cookies.
When Google announced an open house for its proposed $2 billion data center project in Hermantown, just miles outside of Duluth, I saw an opportunity to get some answers.
What gets me is the NDAs that occur long before any of this happened. I don't like the fact that you have the city councils going into these when it may not be in the best interest of the town as a whole. And then it's too late. It seems to happen a lot.
☀️ AI Morning Minute: TPU
NVIDIA makes the chip everyone talks about. Google makes the one that runs everything Google does.
When people talk about AI hardware, NVIDIA dominates the conversation. But Google has been building its own AI chips since 2013, long before most people had heard the word “GPU” in the context of AI. The Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, is Google’s custom silicon for AI workloads, and it powers Gemini, Google Search, Google Photos, Google Maps, and most …
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