# Elizabeth Reid

VP and Head of Search, Google. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. Google's head of Search was the first female engineer in its New York office, and started on the team that built Google Local, the foundation for Maps. ([sources.news](https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview))

- Education: Bachelor's, Computer science, Dartmouth College ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-reid-56356724))
- Career: Google (VP and Head of Search, 2003 to now) ([blog.google](https://blog.google/authors/elizabeth-reid/), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/elizabeth-reid/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/elizabeth-reid/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/elizabeth-reid

- Joined Google in 2003 as the first female engineer in its New York office, when the whole company had fewer than 2,000 employees. ([sources.news](https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview))
- Spent 17 years on maps, starting on the Google Local team whose work became the foundation of local information in Google Maps. ([jasonhowell.substack.com](https://jasonhowell.substack.com/p/google-vp-of-search-liz-reid-on-what))
- Took over all of Google Search in 2024, just as panic about what ChatGPT would do to Google was cresting. ([sources.news](https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview))
- Weeks after AI Overviews rolled out in 2024, she publicly acknowledged odd and wrong answers, while noting many viral screenshots were fake. ([blog.google](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-2024/))
- Under her, AI Overviews reach more than 2.5 billion people a month, and AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly users within a year of launch. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/elizabeth-reid/))
- Calls what AI is doing to Google Search "expansionary," not zero-sum, because people are asking more questions than ever. ([sources.news](https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview))