Web Pioneer joins Google

Google said on Thursday that it has appointed Vinton Cerf, an Internet pioneer and co-designer of the TCP/IP communications protocol, as its chief Internet evangelist.

Mr. Cerf will be leaving his position at MCI, formerly known as WorldCom, where he served as senior vice president. However, he will continue in his role as chairman of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that administers the Internet.

Careful Google, you know what happened to Worldcom...