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Ask.com Appoints Teoma Inventor, Tao Yang, Senior Vice President
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Oakland, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 17, 2006 - Search engine Ask.com has announced that the co-inventor of the Teoma search algorithm, Tao
Yang, has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist.
According to Ask.com,
Mr. Yang is
one of the foremost experts in scalable computing and algorithmic
search. In his new position, Mr. Yang will drive the development and growth of Ask.com search
technologies on a global scale, with a key area of focus on continued
development of large-scale system infrastructure and classification
technologies to deliver the most relevant search experience available for
users.
An Ask.com executive since the Company acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc.
in 2001, Yang is a co-inventor of the ExpertRank (formally Teoma) search
algorithm, having co-led search technology research and development since
2000. Integrated into the Ask.com search engine in 2001, ExpertRank represents
the industry's first search algorithm to determine relevance by evaluating a
site's authority on a specific topic (Subject-Specific Popularity) versus
the site's popularity on the web at large, and executes the required
additional computations in real-time.
Mr. Yang
has been directly responsible for scaling search architectures and algorithms
that handle millions of pages, to giant-scale systems that can handle billions
of documents in terms of relevancy, performance, and freshness.
Steve Berkowitz, CEO at Ask.com commented on the appointment, ''Tao's impact at Ask has been immeasurable, due in large part to his role in transforming Ask.com search into one of only four technologies operating at a world-class level today. Tao has been instrumental in pioneering some of the most important developments in the history of search, particularly in the area of large-scale distributed architectures and algorithms, and we look forward to his continued contributions.''
Mr. Yang has been a leading expert in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, Internet search, cluster-based services, and high performance scientific computing with over 90 technical publications. He has served on numerous conference program committees, journal editorial boards, and government review panels.
Mr.
Yang was formerly Chief Scientist and Vice President of Research and Development during Teoma's startup stage, and was Chief Scientist and Vice President of Search Development at Ask.com.
To learn more, please visit: www.ask.com.
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