Flo rang in the new year by boring her friends with a Google Photos slideshow, while Andy worked on curating the perfect media library. We discuss the year's first major Google news story: a politically-tinged blog post from the company's former Head of International Relations on how Google's policies have morphed over a decade. We'll also take a stroll through the Google Graveyard as of 2019, and YouTube creators finally have a tool to help protect them from content-match copyright claims.

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Links and Show Notes:

• ~ 43:00: I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left

• ~ 1:07:15: What we can learn from a decade of dead Google projects

• Google Graveyard: These Google Services Will Disappear In 2020

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