Rajan Patel, a VP of Engineering for Search at Google and the Co-founder of Google Lens, is now additionally providing an help to Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liason.
For the previous a number of weeks, Rajan Patel’s X profile additionally was tagged as being related to the Google Search Liaison account. So Gagan Ghotra requested Rajan Patel what was up with that and Rajan defined on X:
Danny is the Search Liaison. I am simply right here to get suggestions on what is going on effectively and what could possibly be higher for among the newer issues we’re engaged on, like AI Mode, in order that we are able to take that again and enhance Search.
So whereas Danny Sullivan at Google is the official Search Liaison, it looks like Rajan will even be watching that account and will chime in with responses once in a while.
Here’s a screenshot of Rajan’s profile the place you may see the Search Liaison affiliation:
Rajan Patel will not be solely a VP of Engineering for Search at Google and the Co-founder of Google Lens, he’s additionally a statistician in search high quality at Google. You possibly can learn his analysis work on the Google Research page and see extra about his historical past on LinkedIn.
I ought to add, Rajan has typically responded to issues round Google Search on X through the years. In truth, we have quoted him many times here.
Danny is the Search Liason. I am simply right here to get suggestions on what is going on effectively and what could possibly be higher for among the newer issues we’re engaged on, like AI Mode, in order that we are able to take that again and enhance Search.
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) March 5, 2025
Discussion board dialogue at X.
Replace: The @searchliaison icon affiliation could have simply been faraway from Rajan’s profile in the present day:
Appears just like the affiliation was now eliminated? pic.twitter.com/MhnbAxZplq
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) March 6, 2025

