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2007

2008

2009

  • 2009-01-22 · Google Verb! A Meme. — Hank names the meme 'Google Verb': you google your name with a verb and find out what you did. (00:00:23)
  • 2009-02-01 · Super Bowl Analysis from an Idiot — John says Google's top autocomplete for 'is Edward Cullen' is 'is Edward Cullen real?', found while checking if Edward is a virgin; John answers that he is not real. (00:02:34)
  • 2009-03-02 · Free Will Fetish — John reveals, whispering, that the vlogbrothers now have more subscribers than Google, the company that owns YouTube. (00:02:12)
  • 2009-04-16 · The Day the YouTubes Died — Hank thanks viewers most of all, because YouTube is not what Google does but what the community does, including in the comments. (00:03:45)
  • 2009-08-06 · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — Within two days, typing 'Paige' into Google gave Paige Railstone as the first suggestion. (00:01:49)

2010

  • 2010-01-30 · The iPad and Dolphin Murder — Hank tried YouTube's newly launched rentals program and watched a movie; with Google Checkout already linked to his Google account, renting was very easy. (00:01:16)
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google/YouTube's auto-captioning is currently very bad, as viewers can see by turning on captions for this video. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google is getting better at it and has analytical access to the world's largest database of recorded spoken words: YouTube. (00:00:58)
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google has talent, money and strong incentives: understanding speech would let it run contextual ads on videos, and contextual ads are how Google makes all its money. (00:01:27)
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google also wants people to be able to talk into their phones, which he can already do, but the broader implications of this technology kind of creep him out. (00:01:27)
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google has so far been unable to turn sentences into useful information; it needs cultural context and tone, and a program that could would pretty much be artificial intelligence. (00:02:10)
  • 2010-04-07 · Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy — John says Hank's Monday video, which he loved, made him think about the Googlization of information in the contemporary world. (00:01:23)
  • 2010-04-07 · Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy — John has long thought Google is technically making individuals stupider: the memory in our heads is less needed when Google indexes massive external hard drives. (00:01:29)
  • 2010-05-21 · How to Make a Website in Four Minutes — Hank finds a theme by searching Google, picks the most popular one, uploads it via cPanel's file manager into wp-content/themes, extracts it and selects it under Appearance. (00:02:26)
  • 2010-05-28 · How To Do Everything — John says that for the Friday of How-To Week he will answer the top 10 Google search queries beginning with 'how to'. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-06-09 · Should We Sue Viacom? — Hank thinks even Google's masterminds would struggle to keep YouTube solvent under manual approval. (00:00:29)
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank says Google now tries to guess what you want to know before you finish typing, apparently because people are too lazy to move their fingers more than necessary. (00:00:04)
  • …and 2 more statements in 2010 (most important shown)

2011

  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John sets out to answer some of Google autocomplete's common questions beginning with 'is b' (he calls it auto-correct). (00:00:06)
  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — Answering 'Is Bob Harper gay?' (a man on The Biggest Loser), John asks Google whether we'd have a unified theory if we thought as much about quantum physics as about celebrities' sexuality; he thinks so. (00:00:13)
  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — After the 'is Bieber' autocompletes (gay, in jail, a girl, really 51, dead, going to North Korea…), John says the answer to all is either no or 'ahhh', and that in 2007 they did not imagine a world where Google thinks we want to know such things. (00:01:51)
  • 2011-01-06 · Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job — Checking whether 'our strategy' worked, Hank finds Google does not autocomplete 'is hank green' but Bing does (and suggests 'hank green is cute'), so for this purpose Bing beats Google. (00:02:35)
  • 2011-01-29 · Is Hank Green Batman? — Typing 'is h' into Google now suggests Hank is awesome, and 'is Hank Green' brings up what people wonder about him, including whether he is gay and whether he is Batman. (00:00:36)
  • 2011-03-23 · Why Does My Dog Eat Poop? — John announces 'Google Auto-Fill once again proves that people are weird': he answers the top ten questions people ask Google beginning 'Why does my…'. (00:00:14)
  • 2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — When stressed, John plays 'Google auto-fill once again proves that people are weird', answering the questions people most often ask Google beginning 'Is my b...'. (00:00:11)
  • 2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — John reminds Hank that he recently made a video in which he briefly humped Google. (00:00:05)
  • 2011-06-14 · Google Is Alive! — The problem with 'want' is that it is easy to program: Google's search bot wants to seek out information and send it back — does that make Google's software alive? (00:01:39)
  • 2011-06-14 · Google Is Alive! — By Schrödinger's definition too, Google qualifies: made by humans, it now organizes itself using power from the grid, so Hank ventures a cautious yes, Google is alive. (00:02:51)
  • 2011-11-22 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — John says the legislation before Congress would increase that inequality: YouTube, Google and Tumblr can afford lawyers against Viacom, he can't, and it won't stop already-illegal wholesale piracy. (00:02:54)
  • 2011-11-24 · Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous — Hank types 'Why are' into Google and answers the most-searched question for every letter of the alphabet as a service to Google searchers. (00:00:24)
  • …and 1 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says this dependence means companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Tumblr have to listen to their users, which is good. (00:00:59)
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says everyone using Facebook, Twitter, Google or Angry Birds has agreed to be commodified: not necessarily a bad decision, but one to make thoughtfully and consciously. (00:02:15)
  • 2012-09-07 · Can You Really Light a Fart? — Hank answers the top questions asked to Google that begin with 'Can you really…'. (00:00:31)
  • 2012-11-04 · Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins — John says money from selling a company (say, YouTube to Google) or appreciated stock is capital gains, currently taxed at 15%, far below the ordinary income rate. (00:01:56)
  • 2012-11-24 · Black Friday: An Accident of History — Hank thanks YouTube and Google for funding SciShow and Crash Course and for supporting Vlogbrothers and all the brothers' endeavors over the years. (00:02:51)

2013

  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — Someone at Google called John a couple of days earlier asking whether he wanted to be in a Google Hangout with President Obama and ask him a few questions. (00:01:04)
  • 2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs — Hank says Google has just released a tool, built on decades of photographing Earth from space, that lets you scan the whole world and watch the last 25 years of change. (00:00:12)
  • 2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. (00:01:03)
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — The Google grant that paid for Crash Course for the last two years is ending; without Subbable and its fans' support they cannot keep making it. (00:01:50)
  • 2013-10-08 · Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now — Starting at 1:11 p.m. via Google, John's exchange sign-up repeatedly fails ('please wait', 'sign up unsuccessful', 'system is unavailable'); five minutes in he calls it a little underwhelming. (00:00:26)
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John says the brothers popularized the phrase: it had almost no Google hits or searches before Nerdfighters began using it. (00:00:39)
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. (00:03:05)
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John contrasts companies terrified of genericization with the community, which is defined not by its name or mottoes but by the values they represent, values that don't lose meaning when shared. (00:03:21)