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Yahoo! Appoints Dr. Andrei Broder As Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology; Web Expert and Search Pioneer to Apply Information Retrieval Expertise to Yahoo! Research Projects

Posted on: Friday, 18 November 2005, 09:00 CST

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Andrei Broder as a research fellow and vice president of emerging search technology with Yahoo! Research. Broder, a search technology pioneer who joins Yahoo! following a distinguished career at AltaVista and IBM, will work on finding new and more relevant ways to search the Web. Broder will report directly to Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research.

"Yahoo! Research is focused on creating the scientific underpinnings of Yahoo!'s business and the future of the Internet, and this can only be accomplished with the brightest minds in the computer science community," said Raghavan. "Andrei Broder, who was recently named a 2006 IEEE Fellow, is one of the leading technical contributors to the exploration and discovery of new search technologies and will be a core member of our expanding team."

Broder's research to date has focused mainly on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms and supporting data structures, in particular in the context of Web-scale information retrieval and applications.

"Yahoo! has a very large, diverse, and fast-growing user base plus massive amounts of content and data. This is the perfect environment for fundamental research on the Web," said Broder. "I am excited to join Yahoo!'s leading Internet researchers in exploring emerging search technologies that will distill all the information that the Web has to offer to the maximum benefit of our users."

Raghavan continued, "With Broder's appointment, Yahoo! Research gains further momentum in garnering top technical talent and becoming the premier research institution building the future of the Web."

Previously, Broder was a Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis at IBM Research. Prior to this he was vice president for research and chief scientist at the AltaVista Company, reporting directly to the CEO. He was also a senior member of the research staff at Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto. He graduated summa cum laude from Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, and obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University under Don Knuth.

"Andrei Broder is truly a pioneer in the field of Search and Information Retrieval," said Hector Garcia-Molina, Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and Search Advisory Board member with Yahoo!'s Search Marketing Group. "He will bring a wealth of knowledge to the work being done at Yahoo! Research."

Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 for his work on duplicate elimination of web pages and at WWW9 for his work on mapping the web. He has published more than seventy papers and has been awarded twenty patents. He serves as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and has recently been named a 2006 IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the theory and application of randomized algorithms."

About Yahoo! Research

Yahoo! Research works on developing the world-class science that will deliver the next generation of businesses to the company. Yahoo! Research scientists study data-driven analysis, high-quality search, algorithms and economic models. Yahoo! manages many of the largest and richest data repositories in the world, and researchers mine insights from these giant collections, individually and collectively, maintaining the privacy of our users while setting new standards for user value. Yahoo! Research has facilities in Sunnyvale, Burbank and Berkeley, Calif.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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Source: Business Wire

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