Yahoo R&D Chief Joins MSN Search

sriram_2001 writes "In a major hiring coup, the MSN Search blog announced that Yahoo's head of Research and Development, Dr.Gary William Flake has now joined MSN. According to Oshoma Momoh, General Manager, MSN Search, Dr.Flake will be 'responsible for bridging the innovation happening between Microsoft Research and MSN and for setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and monetization engine.' Dr.Flake is also the first person to be directly hired as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, an elite group that has Dave Cutler and Anders Hejlsberg among other luminaries"

Comments

rofl

[Digital Warfare]

Micrsoft has a 1337 group ?
whats their CSS tag ?

Re:rofl

[Anonymous Coward]

It's <CSS 2.x NOT SUPPORTED>.

Am I the only one ??

[ThomasFlip]

That thinks Dr. Flake is a really goofy name ?

Re:Am I the only one ??

[chrish]

There is (or used to be; it's been a while) a Dr. Fear at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.

If I had a name like that, and worked at a kid's hospital, I'd be dressing up like a super hero when I had to go to work.

Re:Am I the only one ??

[gary.flake]

Just for the record: I agree. That's why I often pronounce it as "Flakenstein" a la Mel Brooke's Young Frankenstein. You gotta have fun with a name like mine.

-- GWF

Yoda sez...

[Quixote]

Begin, the search engine wars has.

Goof up by MS

[indigeek]

The MS blog points to the yahoo webpage and yahoo bio of the guy
If Yahoo wanted to have fun, this is an excellent opportunity for them to replace those pages with something else. For example "Mr.So and So was born in 1980. After a mediocre education he joined Yahoo where he plays for the Crocquet and bridge teams."

all in a name

[realkiwi]

Does that make MSN search Flakey?

Re:What no one from Google?

[ttys00]

Would you move from Google... to Microsoft?

[humor]
I don't know about you, but if the devil came up to souls on their little floating clouds in heaven and offered them all expenses paid trips to hell, I'm not sure he'd have much success.
[/humor]

In Good Company

[Anonymous Coward]

Dr.Gary William Flake has now joined MSN

He'll be joining Dr. Alan U.N. Stable, Robert Bloat, Philmore Crash, Dr. Stewart Nut, and Artemis J. Clyde Frog.

what goes on

[10am-bedtime]

behind closed doors...

• internal wet-behind-the-ears programmer newhires
  • overt messages:
  • "you are working w/ a former enemy who now is on our side"
  • "we have the greatest people working for us"
• covert thoughts:
  • "why is he already distinguished?"
  • "feh, i can program rings around him any day"
  • "i have to learn to kiss ass yahoo style as well as usloth style now?"
  • "(wtf?)"

internal manglement

• overt messsages:
  • "you have control of a former enemy who now is on our side"
  • "we have deprived yahoo of a significant asset"
• covert thoughts:
  • "we bought him, we can put him to pasture"
  • "an engineer, a member of the clueless class (snif, spit spit)"
  • "why can't i land a cushy internal liason job like that?"

Re:Microsoft's way...

[gary.flake]

I can only assume that it is on here because it has Microsoft in the title and gives the editors a chance to whip out the (frankly stupid) borg icon.

And here I thought that this morning's edition of slashdot had been personalized just for me!

-- GWF