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Then Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt (left) with co-founders Sergey Brin (center) and Larry Page (right) in 2008. Google LLC (/ ˈ ɡ uː ɡ əl / ⓘ, GOO-gəl) is an American-based multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...
Page and Google co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin announced the change in a joint blog post, "With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it's the natural time to simplify our management structure.
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...
On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page made this announcement in a blog post on Google's official blog. [10] Alphabet was created to restructure Google by moving subsidiaries from Google to Alphabet, thus narrowing Google's scope.
Bayshore was founded in 2005, after the initial public offering of Google to manage the wealth of its co-founder Sergey Brin and his then-wife, Anne Wojcicki. The name Bayshore comes from an area in Mountain View where Google is headquartered. [2] [3] In 2015, former venture capitalist, George Pavlov was hired to manage Bayshore.
Burks Solomon left Google to oversee the integration of PartPic's technology with the Amazon mobile app. [6] [2] The technology became Amazon PartFinder. [1] In January 2020, Burks Solomon became the first head of Google for Startups in the U.S. [2] Burks Solomon is managing partner of the investment firm, Collab Capital.
On January 20, 2011, Google announced that Schmidt would step down as the CEO of Google but would take new title as executive chairman of the company and act as an adviser to co-founders Page and Brin. [47] Google gave him a $100 million equity award in 2011 when he stepped down as CEO. [48] On April 4, 2011, Page replaced Schmidt as the CEO. [49]
Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome [23] and ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.