Google and Froogle

Waikato University graduate Craig Nevill-Manning is Director, New York & Senior Staff Research Scientist for the world’s leading search engine company, Google. Nevill-Manning completed a PhD in computer science at Waikato before taking up a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. He is now the chief ideas man at Google’s office in Times Square, New York, whose successful developments include the recently launched product search system, Froogle. In June Nevill-Manning made a recruitment tour of Australia, as the Google plans to triple its international workforce over the next 12 months.