- Matt Cutts
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's take on Adword sales and this is a nice customer self-service model for Google that doesn't force them to do anything.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Larry Page
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007
- Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.
- Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time.
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
- Vanessa Fox
Vanessa Fox (born 1972) is the founder and product manager of Google Webmaster Central, as of 2007, and is a well-known blogger and public speaker. At conferences and on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Fox offers advice to webmasters to help get their sites listed in Google, and to solve problems they may have with the way Google indexes their pages. On June 14, 2007, Fox announced she would be leaving Google to join Zillow, an online real estate service company.
- Orkut Büyükkökten
Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service called Orkut while working at Google. He developed Orkut as an independent project, the outgrowth of a company policy whereby all employees at Google can spend 20% of their time working on personal interests. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups.
- Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee (Traditional Chinese:李開復 Simplified Chinese:李开复 pinyin:Lǐ Kāifù, b. December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher. The founding president of Google China, he was hired in July, 2005. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, …
- Adam Bosworth
Adam Bosworth is a Vice President of Engineering at Google Inc. but in the past has had senior positions at BEA Systems, Microsoft and Borland, as well as within companies which he co-founded. He is considered one of the pioneers of XML technology.,
- Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Inc. Before that she served as Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Sandberg previously served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. She joined Google after the administration of George W. Bush came into office and both Summers and his team left the Treasury.
- Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life", meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.
- Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser. Goodger grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He now lives in Mountain View, California and is currently working for Google Inc.
- Chris Dibona
Chris DiBona Open Source Programs Manager at Google
- Paul Buchheit
Randomizing the name seems bad to me because the cc# is still being saved somewhere in the browser db, but I don't get the benefit of auto-fill. A "don't save" attribute makes more sense to me. - Paul Buchheit I think I'd rather have a dedicated HTML marker/field for sensitive information so that browsers could know to not save it if the user chooses to do so. Randomizing the name is the best step you can take short of the browser knowing not to save the input.
- Brad Fitzpatrick
Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of many popular free software projects. Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science and minored in German at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …
- Udi Manber
Udi Manber , Vice President, Engineering
- George Reyes
George Reyes is the Chief Financial Officer of Google, and a director of BEA Systems and Symantec. (See image.) Reyes received his Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of South Florida. He then went on to earn his masters degree in business administration from Santa Clara University. Reyes has spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems and held a variety of jobs, including Vice President and Corporate Controller from April 1994 to April 1999.
- Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", now the standard college text.
- Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a key designer of the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. Hertzfeld joined Google in 2005 and has been working there since.
- Mark Lucovsky
Mark Lucovsky is an American software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system. Lucovsky received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983 from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli.
- Shuman Ghosemajumder
Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book "CGI Programming Unleashed" (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003). He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, …
- Greg Stein
Greg Stein (b. March 16, 1967 in Portland, OR), living in Palo Alto, CA, USA, is an engineering manager at Google. He has prior to that worked for Oracle Corporation, E-shop, Microsoft and CollabNet. He has been involved in free software projects like Subversion, WebDAV, Python and several Apache projects. He is also a director and past chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
- Omid Kordestani
Omid Kordestani is the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google.
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Kevin Marks
Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is an advocate of Microformats. At the first BloggerCon, Marks discussed the power curve as it applies to weblogs: <blockquote>The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, …
- John Hanke
John Hanke is the founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth. Hanke is currently the director of Google Earth & Google Maps. Hanke received his bachelor's degree (Plan II Honors) from the University of Texas, Austin and his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.
- Krishna Bharat
Krishna Bharat is a Principal Scientist at Google who is famous for creating Google News (http://news.google.com/). This service can automatically index about 4500 news websites around the world and provide a summary of the News resources. Officially his title is "Principal Research Scientist". Krishna Bharat created Google News in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep him abreast of the developments.
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- Danny Thorpe
Danny Thorpe is a developer working with Microsoft's Windows Live Platform team. He was the Chief Scientist for Windows and .NET developer tools at Borland Corporation starting from January 2004 until October 2005, as well as Chief Architect of the Delphi programming language from 2000 to 2005. He joined Borland in 1990 as an associate QA engineer working on Turbo Pascal 6.0. He was a member of the team that created the Delphi programming language, …
- Andrew Morton
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the "mm" tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, …
- Dennis Hwang
Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jung-mok is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. He designed his first logo for Google on the Fourth of July in 2000, at the request of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and has been designing the specialty logos ever since. Other logos have been designed commemorating Thanksgiving, Christmas, and unusual events such as Piet Mondrian's birthday.
- Hal Varian
Hal Ronald Varian is a central academic in the economics of information technology and the information economy. Varian's assertion that "Technology changes. Economic laws do not." introduces a series of efforts in applying general economic principles to the information economy. As a professor and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, the author of many books and papers, a New York Times columnist, and a consultant to Google, Inc, …
- Sean Egan
Sean Egan is the project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Talk.
- Georges Harik
Georges Harik was the director of Googlettes (startups within Google). He was born in Lebanon. He is from a town named Bteghrine. Before he joined Google in its early days he obtained a PhD from the University of Michigan in which he presented a linkage-learning genetic algorithm. He did most of his Ph.D. research at the Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory and his advisors were Keiki B. Irani and David E. Goldberg.
- Joshua Bloch
Joshua Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He is the author of the Jolt Award-winning book "Effective Java".
- Rob Pike
Robert C. Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He also worked on the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.
- Ellen Spertus
Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a part-time software engineer at Google. In 2001 she was named The Sexiest Geek Alive. She is the author of technical as well as social articles, often combining the two. She attended MIT, where she received her bachelor's degree (1990), master's degree (1992), and Ph.D. (1998).