The entire blogosphere was astonished to know vanessa Fox is leaving Internet search engine giant Google. Here's Vanessa's piece:

For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central. I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help center, and designing features for the webmaster community. And speaking of the webmaster community, I have been lucky enough to have been able to meet them, get to know their challenges, and well, then there's the drinking. There may have been a little of that too. Search is a fascinating industry and I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to create such exciting things in the space.

Now I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow. I'm moving on from webmaster central knowing that there's a great team who care as much about this audience as I do and they've got exciting plans in store for the coming year.