Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments is managed by Prabhakar Raghavan, have a look at his birth place, salary and net worth
Google with a market valuation of more than $2 trillion is among the most valuable tech corporations in the world. Researchers in Germany have shown that Google Search is becoming less accurate. Google Search, which was formerly thought to be the best search engine, is apparently losing ground to other search engines in terms of user experience as a result of poor optimisation, which is making low-quality information more visible.
Who is Prabhakar Raghavan Head of Google Search, biography, age, family, education, career, birth place, net worth and salary
Well-known podcaster and pundit Edward Zitron claimed that Google Search was killed by an IIT graduate. IIT grads are renowned for their diligence, creativity, and foresight, yet according to Edward Zitron, one of them is a class traitor who allied with the management consultant sect and is a computer scientist. We are talking about Prabhakar Raghavan, an IIT alumnus. At Google, he currently holds the position of Senior Vice President.
According to various media reports, Google paid Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan almost INR 300 crore as the annual salary in 2022. He’s paid like a CEO as the company paid him $55 million in salary and stock.
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads – led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.https://t.co/BlUwkcW1ex
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) April 23, 2024
63-year-old Prabhakar Raghavan was born on September 25, 1960. After receiving her master’s degree from Presidency College in Chennai, Prabhakar’s mother Amba Raghavan, taught maths and physics at St. Patricks High School in Adyar, Chennai, and St. Joseph’s Convent School in Bhopal.
Born and brought up in Bhopal, Raghavan did his schooling from Campion School.
Prabhakar himself has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Raghavan obtained his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1981, his M.S. (ECE) from University of California – Santa Barbara in 1982.
The estimated net worth of Prabhakar Raghavan is at least $74 Million dollars as of 1 April 2024 as he owns over 3,258 units of Alphabet Inc stock worth over $23,820,938 and over the last 3 years he sold GOOG stock worth over $49,542,169 and in addition, he makes $664,750 as Sr. VP of Google at Alphabet Inc.
Prabhakar Raghavan career
In the 1990s, Prabhakar Raghavan was employed at IBM Research. In a 2011 interview, Raghavan told media that he was a Stanford University professor at the time the Google founders were employed there. Afterwards, at enterprise search vendor Verity, he held the positions of chief technology officer and senior vice president.
From 2005 to 2012, Prabhakar oversaw Yahoo Labs, where he worked on a range of initiatives, such as search and advertising. Prabhakar joined Google in 2012. Amidst efforts to boost Google Search’s advertising revenue, he succeeded Ben Gomes as Head of Search in 2020 while serving as Head of Ads at Google.
Prabhakar was made a fellow of the ACM in 2002. He was given the 2006 UC Berkeley Division of Computer Science Distinguished Alumnus Award. Prabhakar received a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna in 2009 and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
Prabhakar Raghavan, current head of Google Search, previously "led" Yahoo Search from 2005-2012.
When he took over, Yahoo Search had 30%+ of the search engine market, second only to Google. By the time he left that dominance had dwindled down to just 13%.
Google was so… pic.twitter.com/1gIXWC8rro
— Mike (Niche Twins) 🏴☠️ (@NicheDown) April 25, 2024