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'''Krishna Bharat''' (born 7 January 1970) is an Indian [[research scientist]] at [[Google]] Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. a [[visual search]] company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on [[Machine learning|Machine Learning]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/02/08/facebook-snaps-up-ai-startup-grokstyle/|title=Facebook Snaps Up AI Shopping Startup GrokStyle|last=Shead|first=Sam|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/13/apple-bought-laserlike-an-ml-startup-that-might-make-siri-smarter/|title=Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter|date=2019-03-13|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref>
'''Krishna Bharat''' (born 7 January 1970) is an Indian [[research scientist]] at [[Google]] Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. a [[visual search]] company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on [[Machine learning|Machine Learning]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/02/08/facebook-snaps-up-ai-startup-grokstyle/|title=Facebook Snaps Up AI Shopping Startup GrokStyle|last=Shead|first=Sam|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/13/apple-bought-laserlike-an-ml-startup-that-might-make-siri-smarter/|title=Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter|date=2019-03-13|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref>


At [[Google]], [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], he led a team developing [[Google News]], a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.<ref name="rg">{{cite web|url=http://research.google.com/people/krishna/|title=Krishna Bharat|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417040637/http://research.google.com/people/krishna/|archive-date=2009-04-17|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref> Among other projects, he opened the Google India's [[Research and Development]] center at [[Bengaluru]], [[India]].<ref name="rediff">{{cite news|url=http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/may/06google.htm|title=Krishna Bharat to head Google's Bangalore centre|date=6 May 2004|publisher=Rediff|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/india-sees-more-people-coming-online-than-the-content-being-created-google-search-head/articleshow/70576620.cms|title=India sees more people coming online than the content being created: Google search head|date=2019-08-07|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref>
At Google, [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], he led a team developing [[Google News]], a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.<ref name="rg">{{cite web|url=http://research.google.com/people/krishna/|title=Krishna Bharat|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417040637/http://research.google.com/people/krishna/|archive-date=2009-04-17|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref> He created Google News in the aftermath of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] to keep himself abreast of the developments.<ref name="notwar">{{cite web |last=Glaser |first=Mark |date=2010-02-04 |title=Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War |url=https://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/02/google-news-to-publishers-lets-make-love-not-war035.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2010-04-02 |publisher=PBS |archive-date=13 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113001214/http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/02/google-news-to-publishers-lets-make-love-not-war035.html }}</ref><ref name="googlefriends">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html|title=Google Friends Newsletter - Q&A with Krishna Bharat |date=July 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125030714/https://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html|archive-date=2007-01-25|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSIhOyXk5M |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/_TSIhOyXk5M |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Burning Man at Google|website=[[YouTube]] | date=3 June 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.


He is on the Board of Visitors of [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Columbia Journalism School]] and [[John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford]].<ref name="linkedin">{{cite news|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-bharat-a1a1805a|title=Krishna Bharat Linkedin Profile|publisher=linkedin|access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>
Among other projects, he opened the Google India's [[Research and Development]] center at [[Bengaluru]], [[India]].<ref name="rediff">{{cite news|url=http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/may/06google.htm|title=Krishna Bharat to head Google's Bangalore centre|date=6 May 2004|publisher=Rediff|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/india-sees-more-people-coming-online-than-the-content-being-created-google-search-head/articleshow/70576620.cms|title=India sees more people coming online than the content being created: Google search head|date=2019-08-07|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref> Bharat is on the Board of Visitors of [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Columbia Journalism School]] and [[John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford]].<ref name="linkedin">{{cite news|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-bharat-a1a1805a|title=Krishna Bharat Linkedin Profile|publisher=linkedin|access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>

Krishna Bharat created Google News in the aftermath of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] to keep himself abreast of the developments.<ref name=notwar>{{cite web|last=Glaser|first=Mark|title=Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War|publisher=PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/02/google-news-to-publishers-lets-make-love-not-war035.html|date=2010-02-04|access-date=2010-04-02}}</ref><ref name="googlefriends">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html|title=Google Friends Newsletter - Q&A with Krishna Bharat |date=July 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125030714/https://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html|archive-date=2007-01-25|access-date=2009-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSIhOyXk5M |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/_TSIhOyXk5M |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Burning Man at Google|website=[[YouTube]] | date=3 June 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.

== Personal life ==
Krishna Bharat grew up in Bengaluru.


== Education ==
== Education ==
He completed his schooling from [[St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore|St. Joseph's Boys' High School]] in Bengaluru, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]]. He subsequently received a [[Ph.D]] from [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] in [[Human Computer Interaction]].<ref name="rd2">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/us/2002/oct/18us.htm|title=Google wants to be part of journalism's future|access-date=2009-04-04|publisher=rediff}}</ref>
Bharat completed his schooling from [[St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore|St. Joseph's Boys' High School]] in Bengaluru, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]]. He subsequently received a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] in [[Human Computer Interaction]].<ref name="rd2">{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/us/2002/oct/18us.htm|title=Google wants to be part of journalism's future|access-date=2009-04-04|publisher=rediff}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
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At Google he developed so-called LocalRank,<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6725259.PN.&OS=PN/6725259&RS=PN/6725259 US Patent 6725259 Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity]</ref> which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop.
At Google he developed so-called LocalRank,<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6725259.PN.&OS=PN/6725259&RS=PN/6725259 US Patent 6725259 Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity]</ref> which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop.


He worked on web search and information extraction at [[Google]] between 1999 and 2015, and left Google in 2015 to become a founding adviser for Laserlike, a machine learning software startup, which was acquired by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-13|title=Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/13/apple-bought-laserlike-an-ml-startup-that-might-make-siri-smarter/|access-date=2020-11-28|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/google-confirms-google-news-creator-krishna-bharat-has-rejoined-company/article_48ca7e1a-c83c-11e9-b0c4-2797b218136b.html|title=Google Confirms Google News Creator Krishna Bharat Has Rejoined Company|last=Reporter|first=India-West Staff|website=India West|language=en|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref> Krishna Bharat rejoined Google in July 2019 as a distinguished research scientist.<ref name=":0" />
He worked on web search and information extraction at [[Google]] between 1999 and 2015, and left Google in 2015 to become a founding adviser for Laserlike, a machine learning software startup, which was acquired by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-13|title=Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/13/apple-bought-laserlike-an-ml-startup-that-might-make-siri-smarter/|access-date=2020-11-28|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/google-confirms-google-news-creator-krishna-bharat-has-rejoined-company/article_48ca7e1a-c83c-11e9-b0c4-2797b218136b.html|title=Google Confirms Google News Creator Krishna Bharat Has Rejoined Company|last=Reporter|first=India-West Staff|website=India West|language=en|access-date=2019-12-29|archive-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830135401/https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/google-confirms-google-news-creator-krishna-bharat-has-rejoined-company/article_48ca7e1a-c83c-11e9-b0c4-2797b218136b.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Krishna Bharat rejoined Google in July 2019 as a distinguished research scientist.<ref name=":0" />


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
In 2015, Krishna received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his [[Alma mater]] [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|IIT Madras]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumni.iitm.ac.in/daa/list.php?yr=2015|title=IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Awardees - 2015|publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Office of Alumni Relations|access-date=18 October 2018}}</ref>
In 2015, Krishna received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his [[alma mater]] [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|IIT Madras]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumni.iitm.ac.in/daa/list.php?yr=2015|title=IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Awardees - 2015|publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Office of Alumni Relations|access-date=18 October 2018}}</ref>


He received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jsk.stanford.edu/about/people/board/bharat/|title=Krishna Bharat|website=John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford|access-date=2020-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/people/7-indian-origin-people-in-prominent-positions-at-google/krishna-bharat/slideshow/18968092.cms|title=7 Indian-origin people in prominent positions at Google|website=The Economic Times|access-date=2020-01-08|quote=Also, he received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.}}</ref>
He received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jsk.stanford.edu/about/people/board/bharat/|title=Krishna Bharat|website=John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford|access-date=2020-01-08|archive-date=13 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213223217/https://jsk.stanford.edu/about/people/board/bharat/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/people/7-indian-origin-people-in-prominent-positions-at-google/krishna-bharat/slideshow/18968092.cms|title=7 Indian-origin people in prominent positions at Google|website=The Economic Times|access-date=2020-01-08|quote=Also, he received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,,1784103,00.html Bharat speaking at the International Press Institute congress in Edinburgh]
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,,1784103,00.html Bharat speaking at the International Press Institute congress in Edinburgh]


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Latest revision as of 21:42, 11 July 2024

Krishna Bharat
Born (1970-01-07) 7 January 1970 (age 54)
Bengaluru, India
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Madras
Georgia Institute of Technology
OccupationResearch scientist at Google
Children3

Krishna Bharat (born 7 January 1970) is an Indian research scientist at Google Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc. a visual search company and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on Machine Learning.[1][2]

At Google, Mountain View, he led a team developing Google News, a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources.[3] He created Google News in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep himself abreast of the developments.[4][5][6] Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page.

Among other projects, he opened the Google India's Research and Development center at Bengaluru, India.[7][8] Bharat is on the Board of Visitors of Columbia Journalism School and John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.[9]

Education

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Bharat completed his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bengaluru, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He subsequently received a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Human Computer Interaction.[10]

Career

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Before joining Google in 1999, he worked at the DEC Systems Research Center where, with George Mihaila, he developed the Hilltop algorithm.[11][12]

Tenure at Google

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At Google he developed so-called LocalRank,[13] which can be considered to be an adaptation of Hilltop.

He worked on web search and information extraction at Google between 1999 and 2015, and left Google in 2015 to become a founding adviser for Laserlike, a machine learning software startup, which was acquired by Apple in 2019.[14][15] Krishna Bharat rejoined Google in July 2019 as a distinguished research scientist.[15]

Awards

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In 2015, Krishna received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater IIT Madras.[16]

He received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.[17][18]

References

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  1. ^ Shead, Sam. "Facebook Snaps Up AI Shopping Startup GrokStyle". Forbes. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter". VentureBeat. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Krishna Bharat". Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  4. ^ Glaser, Mark (4 February 2010). "Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War". PBS. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Google Friends Newsletter - Q&A with Krishna Bharat". July 2003. Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  6. ^ "Burning Man at Google". YouTube. 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Krishna Bharat to head Google's Bangalore centre". Rediff. 6 May 2004. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  8. ^ "India sees more people coming online than the content being created: Google search head". The Economic Times. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Krishna Bharat Linkedin Profile". linkedin. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Google wants to be part of journalism's future". rediff. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  11. ^ When experts agree: using non-affiliated experts to rank popular topics
  12. ^ US Patent 7346604 Method for ranking hypertext search results by analysis of hyperlinks from expert documents and keyword scope
  13. ^ US Patent 6725259 Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity
  14. ^ "Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup that might make Siri smarter". VentureBeat. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  15. ^ a b Reporter, India-West Staff. "Google Confirms Google News Creator Krishna Bharat Has Rejoined Company". India West. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  16. ^ "IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Awardees - 2015". Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Office of Alumni Relations. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  17. ^ "Krishna Bharat". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  18. ^ "7 Indian-origin people in prominent positions at Google". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 January 2020. Also, he received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.
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