Google's Top Indian Inventors

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 September 2011, 00:53 IST   |    3 Comments
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Bangalore: Google undoubtedly has an army of inventors dabbling away in Mountain View and around the world, but here are a few Indians who stand out above the rest for their marvelous innovations and numerous patents in the company. Amit Singhal
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Amit Singhal is a software engineer at Google and the head of Google's core ranking team. He is one among those who hold the patent on a "system and method for providing preferred language ordering of search results." Users speaking English are keen to get English language search results, so Amit helped develop the system that puts them first. He owns 46 patents in the company. As a reward for his rewrite of the search engine in 2001, Amit was named a Google Fellow, an honorary title reserved for Google's most accomplished engineers. He has co-authored more than thirty scientific papers and numerous patents.

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