Industry Moves: Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Joins Google

Google has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to float more ideas and develop new products, as its Internet Evangelist. Cerf’s defection from MCI, announced Thursday, represents the latest coup for Mountain View-based Google, which has been amassing more brainpower as its payroll nearly quadrupled to 4,200 workers during the past two years.

“What I have done in the past is not going to be important at Google,” Cerf said during an interview to AP. “What’s important at Google is what you are doing today and what you going to do tomorrow. That’s the metric I will be measured by.” Cerf expects to spend much of his time developing new applications as Google continues to supplement the search engine that is core to the 7-year-old company.
Cerf will remain chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the oversight agency for Internet domain names.

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