Krishna Bharat

Krishna Bharat
Born (1970-01-07) 7 January 1970 (age 54)
Bengaluru, India
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Madras
Georgia Institute of Technology
OccupationResearch scientist at Google
Children3

Krishna Bharat (born 7 January 1970) is an Indian research scientist at Google Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. a visual search company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on Machine Learning.[1][2]

At Google, Mountain View, he led a team developing Google News, a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.[3] He created Google News in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep himself abreast of the developments.[4][5][6] Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.

Among other projects, he opened the Google India's Research and Development center at Bengaluru, India.[7][8] Bharat is on the Board of Visitors of Columbia Journalism School and John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.[9]

  1. ^ Shead, Sam. "Facebook Snaps Up AI Shopping Startup GrokStyle". Forbes. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter". VentureBeat. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Krishna Bharat". Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  4. ^ Glaser, Mark (4 February 2010). "Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War". PBS. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Google Friends Newsletter - Q&A with Krishna Bharat". July 2003. Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  6. ^ "Burning Man at Google". YouTube. 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Krishna Bharat to head Google's Bangalore centre". Rediff. 6 May 2004. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  8. ^ "India sees more people coming online than the content being created: Google search head". The Economic Times. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Krishna Bharat Linkedin Profile". linkedin. Retrieved 25 January 2018.