Google Loses Adam Bosworth

Adam Bosworth has left Google, leaving the company without one of its brightest architects and costing them the leadership behing Google Health. Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that Bosworth had left the company after three years, two months, and that Marissa Mayer would be taking over Google Health until a replacement could be determined.
Bosworth was a great hire for Google. Google hired him in July 2004 from BEA System. Previously, he had worked for Microsoft, designing Microsoft Access and running the team that built Internet Explorer 4’s HTML engine. At Borland, Bosworth developed the Quattro spreadsheet application. Bosworth is one the pioneers of XML, and you could even say that he is responsible for a little thing called AJAX.
For two years, we’ve been hearing about Google Health, which means it is likely the project he was hired for, or at least the one he’d […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg