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Google Names Dr. Brilliant Head of Philanthropy

February 22, 2006 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

Google Names Dr. Brilliant Head of Philanthropy

If you have a name like Larry Brilliant, you better accomplish something remarkable in your life. Well, Dr. Brilliant has made a career of living up to the expectations laid upon him by his ancestors and now Google has named the Doctor as head its Google.org philanthropic arm.

Wall Street Journal reports :

The appointment of Dr. Brilliant, 61 years old, ends a lengthy and high-profile search for an executive director for Google’s program of corporate philanthropic giving, partnerships and investments. The Web search company has pledged 1% of its annual profit and 1% of its stock, currently valued at around $1 billion, to Google.org. Dr. Brilliant’s current activities include serving as a director of the Seva Foundation in Berkeley, Calif., which he founded in 1979 to combat blindness in the developing world.

“There were a lot of people out there with passion to change the world, but there aren’t a lot of people out there with the proven ability to change the world,” Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations, told the WSJ.

[Hat tip to Alek]

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Loren Baker is the founding editor/creator of Search Engine Journal and remains an advisor and Editor In Chief to this publication.

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  1. Dean Giustini says:
    February 23, 2006 at 2:28 am

    Google’s appointment of Dr. Brilliant is an inspired choice. He has street-cred, tech-cred and even med-cred. In the December 2005 British Medical Journal, I asked Google to get serious about its philanthropy. Do you think my little editorial got Larry and Sergey thinking? Is there a more important human endeavour than improving access to information for the betterment of human health, I ask you?

    Dean Giustini
    UBC Biomedical branch librarian
    Vancouver General Hospital
    CANADA

  2. Gene Wiley says:
    February 25, 2006 at 7:55 pm

    What if that wasn’t his real name (BRILLIANT)….did you do any work on that?

    What is he had run 3 companies into the ground costing investors billions?

    NETI
    SOFTNET
    COMETA

    Each time he did the same thing. And did he really cure smallpox? And do you know anything about the ‘DR’?

    Or did you (and Google) get a snow job.

    Time to wake up and smell the coffee boys, you were had.

    gb

  3. Burton T6 Snowboard says:
    February 10, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    It doesn’t matter if Dr Brilliant isn’t really a Dr, or if he’s rubbish at his job. He deserves that job based on his name alone. I hear Microsoft are hiring a Dr Evil…