Google Health project executive leaves firm

Google Inc. said executive Adam Bosworth, who helped start the Internet company’s health unit, has left to pursue other opportunities.

Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products, will take over the health project on an interim basis, Google spokesman Steve Langdon said Tuesday in an e-mail.

Bosworth, a former executive of Microsoft Corp. and BEA Systems Inc., joined Mountain View, Calif.-based Google in July 2004. He helped create Google Health, a service that provides refined search results for queries related to diseases and medical conditions.

From 2001 to 2004, Bosworth was in charge of product design at San Jose-based BEA, the maker of software that connects computer servers.

He joined BEA when the company bought Internet applications development firm Crossgain, which Bosworth helped found after leaving Microsoft in 1999.

During his tenure at Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, Bosworth helped develop the technology that would eventually become Microsoft’s .Net Internet services.

Google shares rose $6.85 to $521.33 on Tuesday. They have gained 13% this year.