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Robby Stein

VP of Product, Google Search, Alphabet Inc. (Google)

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  • What Changes When You Have 1 Billion Users? Google’s VP of Product Has Answers | Disrupt 2026

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 TechCrunch

    What works for an MVP can fail at massive scale. Google’s Vice President of Product Robby Stein explains how product decisions change when every update touches billions of users, and how one of the world’s largest product organizations balances speed, trust, and reliability. #TechCrunchDisrupt2026 Follow us across...    / techcrunch   https://x.com/techcrunch https://bsky.app/profile/techcrunch.com   / techcrunch     / techcrunch     / techcrunch   Read more: https://techcrunch.com/

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  • What it takes to be a top PM today | Robby Stein (Google Search)

    September 28, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    When AI can help build almost anything, what makes a product people love? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, Google's Robby Stein draws on his work on Instagram Stories, Reels, and AI search to argue that a PM’s most important skill is making great decisions. He shares a three-part approach: understand people’s needs, diagnose why a product isn’t working, and refine the details that make it useful and delightful. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

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  • Robby Stein, Google's VP of Search, on AI Mode & the Future of Links | Kim Isenberg

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 Superintelligence

    Please note that the audio quality in this episode isn't perfect due to a recording issue - we appreciate your understanding. 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 – products now used by billions. He also co-founded Stamped (acquired by Yahoo) and led product at Artifact. In this conversation, we talk about: → How AI Mode is changing the way billions search → What Google learned from scaling AI Overviews → His time at Instagram and the decisi…

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  • 1-on-1 With Google's Robby Stein: Everything New in Google Search! | Frank McShan

    April 08, 2026 · 📺 Frank McShan

    During my visit to Google HQ, I had the chance to speak with Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, where we discuss everything you need to know about Search. We touch on updates to the Search experience, transparency with AI, visual searching with Search Live, and new personalization tools. Robby also shares insight into the process for adding new Search features, hidden features you might not have known about, and how he sees Search evolving in the future. Subscribe for more videos!    / frankmcshan   Let's connect! Threads: https://www.threads.net/@frankmcshan Instagram:   / frank…

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  • Google VP of Product on The Future of Search and AI Mode

    March 11, 2026 · 📺 Product School

    In this episode, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, CEO at Product School, sits down with Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search. Google Search serves billions of users and holds over 90% of the global market share, acting as the engine behind Alphabet's $400 billion in annual revenue. Robby is steering the most significant shift in Search history: the transition to AI. He oversees a massive portfolio, including the new AI Mode, which has already scaled to 75 million daily active users. Drawing from his time building Stories and Reels at Instagram, Robby breaks down how to build zero-to-o…

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  • How AI Is Rewriting Google Search with Robby Stein (Google Search)

    March 04, 2026 · 📺 Superhuman AI

    Google Search is changing, fast. In this episode, Robby Stein (VP of Search at Google) breaks down how AI is transforming Google from a keyword-based search engine into a conversational, reasoning, and action-driven system. Powered by Gemini 3 (Flash & Pro), AI Mode now supports complex multi-turn queries, real-time tool use, interactive simulations, and increasingly personalized results through opt-in “personal intelligence” that connects services like Gmail and Photos. We explore: Why search queries are getting longer and more complex How AI Mode actually works under the hood Gemini 3 Fla…

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  • What Google Is Really Building With AI | Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search

    December 23, 2025 · 📺 AI Applied

    In this interview, we sit down with Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, to break down what Google is actually building with AI Mode and Gemini. Most people think AI is replacing search. That is not what the data shows. Instead, Google is expanding search into something more powerful, more useful, and more interactive. Short factual queries still want speed. Complex, personal questions want reasoning, synthesis, and tools. AI Mode is designed to handle both. We talk about: • Why AI search usage is growing, not shrinking • How Google blends AI with 25 years of ranking, trust, and re…

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  • How is Google Gemini changing the future of search? | Ctrl + Alt + AI with Robby Stein

    December 07, 2025 · 📺 Aishwarya Srinivasan

    ... episode of Control All AI and I'm super excited to have Robbie Stein with me who is the VP of search at Google and Robbie you ...

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  • Google’s Robby Stein on the Future of Online Shopping

    November 06, 2025 · 📺 Silicon Valley Girl Clips

    📺 Watch the full episode here -    • Google’s AI Search Expert: How to Get Ahea...   ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel -    / @siliconvalleygirl   Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/ 🔗 My Instagram:   / siliconvalleygirl   📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co 📹 Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ide... 💻 Resources that helps my team and me grow the business: Email & SMS Marketing Automation - https://your.omnisend.com/marina AI app to work with docs and PFDs - https:/…

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  • Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein

    October 10, 2025 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    Robby Stein is VP of Product at Google, where he oversees the core products of Google Search—including the new AI Overviews, AI Mode, search ranking, Google Lens, and more. Previously, he led consumer products at Instagram, where he and his teams built Stories, Reels, Close Friends, and other key features now used by billions. What you’ll learn: 1. Why Google’s AI products are suddenly taking off after years of perceived stagnation 2. How AI is expanding Search rather than replacing it, contrary to what many predicted 3. The three core product principles that have helped Robby build multiple…

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  • Building a frontier AI search experience

    July 23, 2025 · 📺 Google for Developers

    Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to explore how Search is evolving into a frontier AI product. Their conversation covers the shift from simple keywords to complex, conversational queries, the rise of agentic capabilities that can take action on your behalf, and the vision to help billions of users truly "ask anything." Learn more about the technology behind AI Overviews, AI Mode, Deep Search, and the future of multimodal interaction. Resources: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you →https://goo.gle/45jEj5K AI in Search → https:/…

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  • How AI is transforming Google Search - Robby Stein (Google AI Search)

    July 23, 2025 · 📺 Superhuman AI

    Is Google Search evolving or dying? In this episode of the Superhuman AI Podcast, we sit down with Rob Stein, who leads Google's AI Search team, to explore how AI is fundamentally transforming search—and what billions of users can expect next. From Instagram to Google's most critical product, Rob shares the inside story of rebuilding search for the AI era. We explore: Why 1.5 billion users are already using AI Overviews How multimodal search (camera, voice, screenshots) is exploding with 65% year-over-year growth The future of conversational search and AI Mode Why Google's 25 years of web kno…

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