Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a major leadership reshuffle, with Prabhakar Raghavan becoming Chief Technologist and Nick Fox taking over Search, Ads, Geo, and Commerce. The Gemini app team will integrate into Google DeepMind,

The 64-year-old Prabhakar Raghavan switched to Google from Yahoo back in 2012. Initially, he worked as the vice president of Google Apps, Google Cloud and oversaw its engineering, products and user experience. He led the Gmail team to launch Smart Reply and Smart Compose.

These changes have been announced in a memo to employees. Google divisions such as Google Search, Ads, Gemini, and Assistant will see new leadership.

Google has named Prabhakar Raghavan as its new Chief Technologist, replacing Nick Fox. Raghavan, with a distinguished background and over 20 years of research in algorithms and web search, was previously Google’s Senior VP overseeing key products like Search,

This comes as Google's core business, which is search, gets increased competition from rivals like Microsoft, OpenAI and even startups like Perplexity

Long-time head of search and senior vice president over ads and other important segments, Prabhakar Raghavan, moves into the Chief Technologist role.