Longtime Search SVP Amit Singhal leaving Google after 15 years
http://9to5google.com/2016/02/03/amit-singhal-leaving-google/
Google's longtime Senior Vice President of Search Amit Singhal
is leaving the company after 15 years. In a Google+ post, he
said that February 26th would be the last day and that he would
be looking into philanthropy in the future. Singhal is
responsible for the all important ranking algorithm behind
Search. As described in Steven Levy's In The Plex, Singhal
rewrote the entire search engine in 2001 and was named a Google
Fellow. In his post, he recounts how far search has advanced in
the past 15 years and that the "Star Trek" computer, that has
served as Google's guide on computing, is becoming a reality. He
goes on to say that "search is stronger than ever" and that a
capable team has already been running the day-to-day operations
of the Search team for a while.
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