Sundar Pichai to be head of almost everything at Google

Google co-founder Larry page, as a part of a company re-organisation, has transferred more responsibilities to Pichai to oversee products such as search, maps, Google+, commerce, advertising and infrastructure, while he will continue current responsibilities, reported Reuters, citing a company spokesperson.

Prior to this promotion, Pichai served as Google's senior vice-president & head of Android, Chrome and Apps. Some of the top six executives (including research, social media and search), who used to report to Page, would now work under Indian-born Pichai.

Though Google was unavailable to comment on the Big News, tech pundits and market analysts believe this move is the company's process of grooming the 42-year-old Pichai to head Google Inc one day.