Google’s Mayer to Oversee Location, Local Services
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Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.’s vice president of search products, is taking a new role overseeing location and local services -- markets the company is counting on to boost sales.
Mayer, who joined in 1999 as the company’s first female engineer, will run an area that’s crucial to users and Google itself, the Mountain View, California-based company said today in an e-mail. Mayer also is joining Google’s operating committee, the company’s senior most management group, according to a person familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified because the move hasn’t been made public.