Chances are you haven't heard the name Prabhakar Raghavan who is a senior vice president at Google. He leads the Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments teams. Last year he was labeled as an individual guilty of ruining Search, causing if you "try to try Google" today, the answer received is most likely garbage, AI hallucinations and is a purchased ad link.
Sundar Pichai this morning announced the restructuring of various divisions at Google. Prabhakar Raghavan is now officially no longer at the helm of Google Search and has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer. His place has been taken over by Nick Fox who previously held the position of vice president of Search and Google Assistant.
Under Prabhakar's supervision, Google's advertising capabilities have been enhanced to increase revenue. Among the major changes made is the redesign of the Search interface with the ad label no longer clearly visible. This causes users to click on ad links for sites that are actually not the best for the answer they are looking for.
In addition, he is also responsible for introducing AI Overview, which received great criticism for giving wrong answers and stealing traffic from sites that gave real answers. Because of his "sins" of focusing on profit rather than Search's original purpose of providing the most relevant searches, Prabhakar was labeled as "The Individual Who Killed Google Search" last year.