John Piscitello is responsible for the product definition and development of the Google Search Appliance and Google Web APIs. The Google Search Appliance is a hardware / software solution that brings Google's search technology to company websites and intranets. The Google Web APIs service enables developers to query Google's index of more than 2 billion documents directly from their computer programs.

Prior to Google, Piscitello was a Senior Business Manager at AltaVista Company, where he managed the worldwide roadmap, strategy, and messaging for AltaVista Search Engine 3.0 software. Before AltaVista, Piscitello worked as a software engineer developing Macintosh-based professional music software products for Mark of the Unicorn, Inc., and worked as a Senior Product Manager for Solaris system administration tools for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Piscitello earned a bachelor's of science and a master's of science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.