• Krishna Bharat, the Google Principal Scientist who conceived the idea for Google News
• Following September 11, I realized it would be useful to see news reporting from multiple sources on a given topic assembled in one place
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BIO:

Krishna Bharat was born in India and grew up in Bangalore. He went to St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore and got:

• undergraduate degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. IIT, Madras is considered as prestigious university in India
• a Ph.D from Georgia Tech in Human Computer Interaction.

He worked at the DEC Systems Research Center where, with George Mihaila, he developed the Hilltop algorithm (US Patent), assigned to Hewlett Packard.

In 1999, he joined Google.

At Google:

• Krishna Bharat developed so-called LocalRank (US Patent), which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop
• He leads a team developing Google's news product.
• Aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he is the creator of Google News, a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 25 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.
  Since then, it has been a huge hit and a popular offering from Google's services. It is interesting to note that Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.

The Google Principal Scientist