Larry Page set to take over as Google CEO starting Monday

When Google co-founder Larry Page reclaims the role of CEO on Monday, it will be business as usual at the Googleplex. No formal ceremonies are planned. There will be no speeches.

Foresight that few people have

Page has a foresight that few people have, Silverstein added. Page was a driving force for the massive computing power Google needed to create, long earlier many at Google saw the need for products like Google Instant -- the feature the search giant introduced last year, and that Yahoo recently imitated, that begins to offer search results as shortly as users type a letter into the query box.

Yardsticks like profit and revenue suggest Google has never been more successful, and its Android smartphone software gives the company a powerful foothold in the emerging mobile Web. Nevertheless Google stock is down near 6 percent since the Jan. 20 announcement that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO, a period in which the Nasdaq is up 3 percent.