Krishna Bharat, born on 7 January 1970, is an Indian-American computer scientist at Google. He is best known as the creator of Google News, which he built after the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep up with developments, and which indexes news websites in many languages to provide a summary of the news sources. Before joining Google in 1999 he worked at the DEC Systems Research Center, where he and George Mihaila developed the Hilltop algorithm. At Google he worked on search and on extracting information from the web, opened the company's research and development center in Bengaluru, left in 2015 to advise the startup Laserlike, and rejoined Google in July 2019 as a distinguished research scientist. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and took a Ph.D. in human computer interaction at Georgia Tech.
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He worked on web search and information extraction at Google between 1999 and 2015
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