Netease Technology News June 5, according to foreign media reports, Alphabet's Google has adjusted the company's leadership, handing control of the search engine and advertising product team to Prabhakar Raghavan (Prabhakar Raghavan).

Pictured: Prabhakar Raghavan

It is reported that since 2018. Lagarvan, who has been responsible for advertising products, will succeed Ben Gomes as the head of the search business. The newly appointed director of advertising products, Jerry Dischler, will report to Lagarvan, which means that Google’s two business units will now be managed by a core leader.

Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief commercial officer responsible for the company’s advertising operations and large-scale advertising sales, will continue to report to CEO Sundar Pichai.

According to a Google spokesperson, Gomez has been with Google for 20 years, and he will turn to education and cultural projects. Another veteran employee, Jen Fitzpatrick (Jen Fitzpatrick), who has worked at Google for 20 years, will be transferred from the map department to manage the company's internal technical infrastructure. A Google spokesperson also confirmed the news.

Since founders Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin) and Larry Page (Larry Page) resigned, Pichai took over the dual CEO positions of Google and Alphabet. Since then, this executive change has also been Google’s most significant top-level adjustment.

It is understood that Lagarvan was born in India and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the University of California, Berkeley. (Chenchen)

Source: NetEase Technology Report, translated by Google Translate