Yahoo has hired Andrei Broder, former chief scientist, Alta Vista, as Vice President of Search Technology.


Yahoo has hired Andrei Broder, former chief scientist, Alta Vista, as Vice President of Search Technology.

Andrei Broder, said, “There is an enormous amount of possibilities and an enormous amount of invention coming in the next decade.” [Source]

Broder admitted to having talked with Google and Microsoft before accepting Yahoo’s offer.

Broder was chief scientist at Altavista.com from 1999 to 2002. He then took up a position at IBM Research as the chief technology officer for search and text analysis.

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