Sundar Pichai sees Google's future in its oldest offering: Internet search

The India-born executive also said he expects that more of Google's products will be developed and tested in Asia first

While many other technology giants embrace the metaverse as the next frontier of growth, Sundar Pichai sees Google’s future in its oldest offering: internet search.

“I feel fortunate our mission is timeless,” Pichai, who is chief executive officer of Google and its parent, Alphabet Inc., said in an interview during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. “There’s more need to organize information than ever before.”

Earlier this month, Alphabet briefly crossed $2 trillion in market value thanks to sales and profit growth during the pandemic. When asked where the next trillion would come from, Pichai pointed to his company’s core