Google CEO Sundar Pichai has appointed Prabhakar Raghavan as the tech giant's chief technologist. Raghavan will be moving into the role of chief technologist after 12 years of leading other teams across the search company,

In the past, Raghavan oversaw Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments as a Senior Vice President.

This comes as Google's core business, which is search, gets increased competition from rivals like Microsoft, OpenAI and even startups like Perplexity