Patel had his first blogging job at
Gapers Block, a
Chicago-centric blog. He joined
Engadget in 2008 and was responsible for blogging. In 2011 Patel left
Engadget along with a few co-workers to start
The Verge. In March 2014 he left
The Verge to join sister site
Vox. In July 2014 he returned to
The Verge as editor-in-chief, after
Joshua Topolsky left the position to work at
Bloomberg. Patel is a co-host of
The Vergecast, which has won the
Webby Award for best technology podcast. He also hosts
Decoder, a podcast on which he interviews tech and policy leaders, launched in 2020. He makes regular appearances on
The Verge's "history show meets a rewatch podcast" show,
Version History. Patel has appeared on a number of news channels, including
MS NOW (formerly MSNBC),
Fox News,
CNN,
CNN International,
NPR,
Sky News,
NHK,
G4TV, and
TWiT. Patel coined the term "
Google Zero" to criticize the direction of
search engines like
Google Search integrating
LLM tools like
AI Overviews, which scrape media outlets for content and reduce
click-through web traffic. == References ==