Publications

July 9, 2007

As a Vice President of Engineering, Udi is responsible for core search. Before joining Google early in 2006, Udi was CEO of A9.com, a Senior VP at Amazon.com, and Yahoo's Chief Scientist. He started working on search algorithms in 1989 with the invention of Suffix Arrays (with Gene Myers) while he was a professor at the University of Arizona, and he was a co-developer of several search packages, including Agrep, Glimpse, WebGlimpse, and Harvest.

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Eric Enge: One thing I noticed in the recent New York Times article by Saul Hansell, is that you've been at the University of Arizona, you were Yahoo's chief scientist for a while, and you were at Amazon. They remarked in the article, that you were surprised about how far Google was in terms of technology when you arrived to Google. Can you talk about that a little bit.

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