Google Keeps up Its Executive Shuffling, Close-Sources Shopping API

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) continues to be strongly profitable, leads the world in search engine traffic, and makes the world's most-used smartphone OS. But in recent weeks the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has been doing a bit of "spring cleaning". It previously announced that after a decade SVP Andy Rubin was leaving the Android team to work on other undisclosed projects at Google; stepping in for him was Chrome and Android apps SVP Sundar Pichai.

Geo and commerce SVP Jeff Huber, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, will move to manage Google X, Google's experimental development unit, which is cooking up projects such as self-driving cars and the Google Glass wearable computer. The mapping unit will be merged with the search unit, which will remain under the supervision of SVP of "Knowledge" (search) Alan Eustace.

The commerce part of Mr. Huber's former unit will be merged into the advertising unit, under SVP Susan Wojcicki.

Mr. Huber formerly worked at Internet service provider Excite@Home and eBay, Inc. (EBAY) before joining Google in 2003. He was among the engineers to be promoted when Larry Page took over the reins as CEO in 2011.

A Google spokeswoman appears to partially confirm these shifts, commenting, "Jeff is an extraordinary executive. He just finished his first decade at Google—having worked on some of our most complicated issues like ads, apps, payments and geo—and now he is eager to work in more of a startup-like environment."

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