Bing is Live, Googler Leaves for Yahoo
The new search engine from Microsoft Bing.com is now officially live. You can search whatever, just like Google. Microsoft has allocated around $80 million in advertising to promote the search engine to the public.
The first impression of Bing is very good. The results are very relevant and it stands up very well to Google. I personally think now Google has a more serious competitor. Add to that $60 billion in reserves and we’re in for a very though battle.
Ex-Googler Yoelle Maarek Becomes a Purple Person
In 2006, Yoelle Maarek founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center. While there, her team contributed such features as Google Suggest, Searching Ads, and Interactive Annotations on YouTube.
Maarek left Google and will now lead the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa with Ronny Lempel. The lab was opened in March 2008.
Prior to her Google gig, Maarek worked for IBM Research both in New York and Haifa. Maarek received her undergrad and grad degrees in Paris and later her PhD from Technion in Haifa. During her PhD studies, she also was a visiting student at Columbia University in New York. - search engine watch
