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Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web
What's next in "search"? Scaling, fault tolerance, and storage management become a lot more exciting when we go from the colossal scale of Yahoo! to the challenges of searching not just the public Web, but your desktop, email, bookmarks, and other repositories of information such as your online communities. This talk introduces Yahoo!'s personal and social search initiative, and focuses on technology infrastructure that can store, index, and search user and community content on a massive scale. Specific topics also include storage management, fault tolerance, metrics, and real-time monitoring.
Dr. Qi Lu is a VP of Engineering of Yahoo! Inc., responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s Search and Marketplace businesses unit, which includes the company's search, e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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author = {Qi Lu},
title = { Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web},
year = {2005},
address = {San Diego, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}