Tech News Desk –The period of dominance of Indians in Google continues. India has a new entry in Google. Google has appointed Prabhakar Raghavan as the new Chief Technologist of the company. Raghavan will replace Nick Fox. This announcement has been made by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Raghavan has 12 years of experience working at Google. Raghavan will report directly to Sundar Pichai.

Who is Prabhakar Raghavan?
Prabhakar Raghavan has taken over the role of Chief Technologist at Google. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Madras. Raghavan has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Prabhakar Raghavan was a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM.

Have a lot of experience on Google search and algorithms
Before joining Google, Prabhakar Raghavan had founded Yahoo Labs. He oversaw ad ranking as well as ad marketplace design at Yahoo. He also served as CTO at Verity and held various positions at IBM over 14 years, where he focused on algorithms, data mining, and machine learning.

What will be Raghavan's role at Google?
According to a webpage, Raghavan has a lot of experience in Google Search. He has 20 years of experience working in algorithms, web search, and databases. Google has obtained more than 20 patents.