Google hires Vinton Cerf or Vinton Cerf decides to work for Google. No matter how you look at it, it's the Internet hiring of the year. As most people know - or should know - Cerf was one of the key people behind the creation of the Internet - long before it morphed into the World Wide Web and made dot-com millionaries out of teenager entrepreneurs. Not sure what Cerf, who will be Google's chief Internet evangelist, will exactly do but it certainly gives the company more credibility as it moves to take over the Web. Om Malik believes Cerf will play an instrumental role in building GoogleNet, a national broadband network the company will need to deliver rich Web-based services. For more about Cerf's hiring, here's a story from the San Jose Mercury.