After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][16=][14][14=][12][12=] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17][17=] At Yahoo!, he worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][15=][18][18=] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!’s chief strategy officer.[19][19=]
In 2012, Prabhakar joined Google after severe funding cuts in Yahoo!’s research division.[19][19=] In 2018, he was > put in charge of Ads and Commerce at Google and in 2020 his scope was expanded to include Search, Geo, and Assistant.[20][20=] [21][21=]
In 2024, he transitioned to the role of Chief Technologist at Google.[2][2=]
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If you have even a passing interest in what, or rather who is the cause of (not just) Googles enshitification and 15 to 30 minutes to spare, I would strongly recommended reading The Man Who Killed Google Search, or listening to the podcast episode, linked at the very top of the page.
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