Microsoft commercial-search chief departs

Paul Ryan, Former Overture CTO, leaves MSN

[bakedjake]

[news.com.com...]

The Microsoft executive charged with building a paid-search technology to compete with Yahoo and Google has quietly left the company after less than four months on the job, CNET News.com has learned.

[sem4u]

Just seen this. I wonder what happened.

[bakedjake]

Dunno... Trying to find out now, actually.

[bcolflesh]

quietly left the company

Usually due to brutal NDA that he probably signed and large "keep quiet" bonus.

Please post what you discover.