eBay to Fix It’s Crappy Best Match Search? New Acquisition from Microsoft / Bing!!!
It looks like eBay may be taking steps in the right direction for search. No, these are NOT baby steps, it looks like a GIANT leap forward in direction could be underway.
According to Andy Beal on Seeking Alpha it seems Microsoft has lost Hugh Williams to eBay! Hugh was the Microsoft Bing product development manager and he quit to take a job at eBay.
From LinkedIn:
I managed the development of all user-facing web search relevance features, including the left-rail explore pane (with its "table of contents"), navigational query treatments, query-biased summaries, "deeplinks", related searches, and whole page results relevance. Additionally, I managed the Powerset team in San Francisco.
I also managed the end-to-end development of Internet Explorer 8’s suggested sites feature, image search, video search, news search, xrank, and almost all instant answers (such as the encarta, news, images, and so on).
Hugh played a large part in the development of the new Bing search engine for Microsoft and he was very instrumental in the development of Internet Explorer 8. It seems that Mr. Williams has and EXTREMELY impressive resume as well…
Work
- I was a Partner at Microsoft and a Development Manager in the Bing search engine team from 2005 to 2009
- I was the Associate Professor in Information Retrieval at RMIT University from 1994 to 2004
- I wrote software for my own company from 1990 to 1997
- Download a short resume (in PDF format) or see my profile at LinkedIn
Research
- My areas of expertise are Search Engines, Information Retrieval, and Computational Biology
- I’ve published 3 books, 2 book chapters, 20 journal papers, 44 conference papers, and several other works. I have roughly 25 patents pending
- Here is a list of my publications. A partial list is also available at the DBLP
- At RMIT University, I advised twelve PhD graduates
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