Google Now employees leave due to dissatisfaction with new CEO's restructuring plan

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Google announced a major reorganization, with Indian-American executive Pichai as the new CEO of Google, and Page no longer managing Google's daily operations. Google's chief executive changed from Page to Pichai, and some related adjustments also caused internal conflicts. According to reports, the team of Google's voice assistant tool Google Now has resigned due to dissatisfaction with the reorganization decision.

It should be pointed out that before Google officially appointed Pichai as CEO, Page had put him in charge of all of Google's important businesses, including the Chrome browser, ChromeOS operating system and Android business.

According to Recode, a US technology news website, Pichai does not attach as much importance as Page to Google Now, a voice assistant tool for mobile phones.

It is reported that after Pichai took over the Android operating system, he made a business adjustment and transferred the Google Now team from the Android business department to the search engine. In Pichai's view, the relationship between Google Now and the search engine is closer.

But in fact, before this, Google Now was mainly an intelligent assistance tool for smartphone users. For example, it could send text messages and set personal appointments, and searching for online information was only a secondary function.

The Google Now team reportedly objected to Pichai's decision, but Pichai ultimately decided to make team adjustments.

This caused strong dissatisfaction among the team. In March this year, the two people in charge of the development of Google Now resigned, and then before Google held its I/O development conference in the middle of the year, several more team members resigned.

According to foreign media reports, important members of the team responsible for the original development of Google Now have left Google.

It is obvious that Google's integration of its Android and ChromeOS businesses is not going smoothly.

Prior to this, Pichai was mainly responsible for the Chrome browser and ChromeOS operating system. Although the Chrome browser has gained significant market share worldwide, the global share of the ChromeOS operating system is very small. In addition, in the context of smartphones replacing personal computers, the prospects of ChromeOS are far less important than Android.

Within Google, the Android system led by "Father of Android" Rubin has achieved far more success around the world than Pichai's Chrome business.

However, strangely, Page decided to let Pichai take over the Android system business, and Rubin was first responsible for the robotics project within Google, and then left Google completely.

According to media reports, Rubin was transferred by Page because of his strong personality and lack of communication and cooperation within Google. The most typical example is that the Android system did not have the "same product" Chrome browser implanted, but instead developed its own browser.

After many rounds of communication and negotiation, Rubin still refused to cooperate with other businesses, and Page finally had to step in and force Rubin to resign.

Unlike Rubin, Pichai is modest and gentle, popular, and recognized by the vast majority of Google employees. But his adjustments to the business are obviously difficult to satisfy everyone.

It should be pointed out that in the past year, Google has experienced the most serious wave of executive departures in history, with many veteran executives who have worked at Google for many years leaving one after another. In the era of mobile Internet, web search engines have become antique-level businesses that do not conform to future development trends. Google's efforts in various new business areas have ended in failure (such as Google Glass, social network Google+, and smartphone hardware business). Google is no longer the company that everyone dreamed of joining ten years ago.

Some analysts believe that Page, who comes from a science and engineering background, does not have the personal ability to run Google at the level of a professional manager. With Pichai, who has strong comprehensive abilities, as CEO, Google may have a better development direction.