Google Hires Internet Pioneer: Vint Cerf
Google has been on a recruiting spree and one thing’s for certain: they’ve attracted some serious brainpower.
AP reports: “Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to float more ideas and develop new products, adding another weapon to the online search engine leader’s rapidly growing arsenal of intellect.”
“In an interview, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said few of the company’s recent hires have been as significant as Cerf, widely regarded as one of the Internet’s creators because of his seminal work developing the network’s essential communications protocols, TCP/IP, at Stanford University in the 1970s.
“He is one of the most important people alive today,” said Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. “Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.”
When he starts work at Google on Oct. 3, Cerf’s official title will be “chief Internet evangelist“
We’ve been critical of Google over their politics, not their technology.
They’ve hired very well. Expect great things.
UPDATE:
Google: The Moonbat Search Engine
So much for their technology…