Former Google search chief Amit Singhal joins Uber

What do you do after running Google search for 15 years? For Amit Singhal, it was going to be time off and a focus on his foundation. But now, Google’s former search chief is joining Uber as a senior vice president of engineering overseeing the Map and Marketplace departments. TechCrunch has a long interview with Singhal and the news. He left Google about a year ago and has been spending time on his foundation to help get promising kids to top schools in India. But with that apparently humming along, it sounds as if Singhal was ready for a new challenge — one that came up after meeting Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. Singhal said he found the computer science challenge of Uber too interesting to pass up. From what he told TechCrunch: “This company is not only doing things that are amazing, this company also has some of the toughest computer science challenges that I have seen in my career of 25 Search Engine Land Source

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