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Yahoo R&D Chief Joins MSN Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-do-you-want-to-work-today? dept.

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"

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  1. Yahoo by indigeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I doube hiring the project manager without a technical team will bring any changes to MSN.
    Quite different from google where each of the employee is handpicked

    1. Re:Yahoo by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Right, just like prising Anders Hejlsberg from Borland didnt bring about any changes because MS hire these brilliant people with no intention of actually getting them to do anything.

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  2. Re:Yoda sez... by deutschemonte · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also...
    Hmm... fallen to the dark side, young Flake has.

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  3. What no one from Google? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would be much more impressed if they had hired someone from Google. MS needs some different thinkers and if they had hired someone from Google that would have been a coup and probably better for them as a company. They do appear overall to be changing for the better all be it at a glacial pace.

    Someone from Yahoo! is fresh blood from outside the MS culture so at least it's a beginning.

  4. Re:innovations by coolcold · · Score: 2, Insightful

    na, I don't use it but there was some "news" about opera and msn's site a while ago. Just mentioning.

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