Yahoo Successfully Queries For Andrei Broder

By David Utter
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-11-18

The former chief scientist for AltaVista, once the name in search until Google came along, has reemerged as Yahoo's vice president of emerging search technology.

Google and Microsoft tried to woo Broder to their respective campuses, but Forbes reported the highly-sought search expert will take his mighty brain to Sunnyvale instead.

Broder gets to set the course for Yahoo's search efforts. "There is an enormous amount of possibilities and an enormous amount of invention coming in the next decade," Broder said in the report.

Before joining Yahoo, Broder's work at AltaVista was followed by a stint at IBM, where he worked on enterprise search as CTO for search and text analysis. That work bolstered his desirability in a field where scarcity would be the best description of true search experts.

That scarcity set Microsoft against Google in court, where the issue of Dr. Kai-Fu Lee's non-compete agreement with Microsoft has kept him from working with Google on search and technology issues until at least January 2006 and possibly beyond that to July, when the agreement ends.

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