Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant said the corporate initiative dovetails with the philanthropy's work on global health and climate change.

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Sandberg and Google.org head Larry Brilliant drew on people they knew from their earlier lives (at, respectively, global health and the U.S. Treasury) to head the corporation's big initiatives.

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To prove his good intentions Rogers has made repeated pilgrimages to Silicon Valley, where he's met with people like Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr and Larry Brilliant of Google.org, the search giant's do-gooder arm.

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"We used to joke that Larry is brilliant but time-dyslexic, " says Mark Porter, who worked at Oracle in the 1990s on video-on-demand technology that never debuted.

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In an announcement late Monday, the company said that Google.org director Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant would become Google's Chief Philanthropy Evangelist, and Megan Smith, currently head of new business development at Google, would become general manager of Google.org.

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The Google connection came about after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin heard a Brilliant lecture on early disease detection.

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