Rand has a long post thanking Vanessa Fox for her role at Google. She has done lot of innovative things for the webmaster community and rightly deserves all the kudos:
Webmaster Central was not only Vanessa’s department, it was her baby, her idea (right from inception), her show. If not for Vanessa, we might never have had the dedicated team of webmaster relations specialists (people like Jonathan, Amanda, Trevor, Susan & Maile).
We might never have been able to send sitemaps to Google, see data about our sites (particularly the link data, for which Vanessa was always a fantastic advocate), verify ownership, select a preferred domain display or do any of the hundreds of other things that Webmaster Central enables. Link
Vanessa has joined Zillow. She is probably the most well-known chic female among the SEO community.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/vanessa-fox-the-google-lady-webmaster/436/
