MSN Hires Top Yahoo Search Talent

[Brett_Tabke]

cnet [news.com.com].

Microsoft on Monday said it has hired away Gary Flake [research.yahoo.com], a principal scientist at Yahoo Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

[searchenginewatch.com...]

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:17 pm (utc) on April 12, 2005]

[donpps]

Yahoo 2009 personalized search? Whatever happened to semantic web technology?

[Chico_Loco]

Never heard of him, but nice CV.

[zafile]

"MSN Hires Top Yahoo Search Talent Gary Flake"

What talent? :)

I had a boss who constantly told me: "Ken, stop talking BS and start giving me results."

Yahoo! has spent billions of dollars to improve its search business.

March 2003 - Acquires Inktomi
September 2003 - Acquires Overture plus Altavista

Then, in February of 2004 announces "YAHOO! INTRODUCES MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND RELEVANT SEARCH EXPERIENCE WITH NEW YAHOO! SEARCH TECHNOLOGY."

The press release read "Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on Yahoo!® Search."

After one year, I still can't see any good results.

Since February 2005 and without the help of Gary Flake, MSN gives much better results than Yahoo.

[newsphinx]

Failure to rank well on Yahoo is irrelevant to whether Mr. Flake is a talent, although I agree Yahoo's result is not comparable with Google's.

[running scared]

I assume that this has more to do with a MSN PPC offering than organic

[silverhead]

The new MSN search still needs a bunch of help and maybe this is it.