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Ankit Jain Departs as Head of Search for Google Play Store

Ankit Jain, Google employee of the past three years, left his position as head of Search and Discovery for the Google Play Web store last week.

Before leaving, Jain’s position entailed maintaining the Google Play storefront infrastructure and helping build the search backends for finding apps, music, e-books and movies on the site, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Prior to his time leading search for Google Play, Jain was a senior software engineer at Cuil, a search-engine startup that was shuttered in 2010 after Google “acqhired” the core members of the company’s team (including Jain).

Outside of hinting at creating another small startup, Jain did not specify exactly what he’d be up to next.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald