Page and Brin started Google soon after they met as Stanford University graduate students in 1995. Google dominates online search and digital advertising and makes the world’s most widely used operating system for smartphones, Android. Yet Google has been facing pressure from privacy advocates over its collection and use of personal information to target advertising. Pichai assured employees in an internal email that his new job wouldn’t mean he was taking a step back from Google. Page and Brin, both 46, both have been noticeably absent from Google events in the past year.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 21:55 UTC