• Forbes, Friday, November 18, 2005 11:45 AM

Yahoo! has beat out Google and Microsoft to hire Andrei Broder as vice president of emerging search technology. Broder was formerly the chief scientist for AltaVista from 1999 to 2002, before leaving to be chief technology officer for search and text analysis at IBM Research. High-level search executives are a rare breed, so it turned out to be a particularly tight race amongst the major search companies to hire Broder. Yahoo!'s new recruit says he chose the company because of its ability to utilize both content and user information in improving search.

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