Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?

Apr 27, 2009 at 9:47am ET by Barry Schwartz

Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in a short post here.

Former Googler Douglas Bowman, who resigned from Google due to Google being too data centric has taken a job at Twitter, according to TechCrunch.
Priti Choksi, a director of strategic partner development at Google has moved to Facebook, according to VentureBeat.
Well-known Greg Linden is Leaving Microsoft after Microsoft has “dismantled” Live Labs.
Brad Williams, Yahoo Inc.’s head of communications has left the company. Rumors say he was fired. More on this at the Wall Street Journal.
Yahoo hired former Adobe executive, Bryan Lamkin, to lead up the applications group according to News.com.
Former AOL executive, Mike Jones, will become the COO of MySpace according to TechCrunc.
Yahoo is reportedly hiring up to 150 people in India.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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