Career
He also worked on Google Analytics and Google Voice. Chan led and managed the acquisitions of Urchin Software Corporation and GrandCentral Communications which became the foundation and inspiration for the Google Analytics and Google Voice services.
Among the projects he has led or founded while at Google include:
- The acquisitions of Urchin Software Corporation and Measure Map which became the Google Analytics service.
- Google Toolbar 2.0 and led the design of Google's popup ads blocker.
- The acquisition of GrandCentral Communications, a web telephony service that became the foundation and inspiration for Google Voice.
- The acquisition of Gizmo5, which also became part of Google Voice.
- Numerous features and improvements to Google AdWords and Google AdSense, including Google's first display advertising serving system.
- Google Talk instant messaging service
- Google WiFi access points
Chan was also a research lead at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA and was a software engineer at Microsoft and Fujitsu.
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