Google hires Amazon's search guru
Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
Google has hired Udi Manber, the head of Amazon's A9 online search unit, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Manber will be a vice president of engineering at Google, according to Google spokeswoman Lynn Fox. She declined to provide more details. This is just the latest in a string of controversial Google hirings, including employees from rivals. Even more high notworthy has been Google's hiring of former Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee, which sparked a lawsuit that has since been settled, and Internet pioneer Vint Cerf.