nbsp;Ask.com is definitely not playing around. They have just named ExpertRank Co-Inventor, chief scientist of their company. To me, this indicates positioning. They are getting ready for something big. With any luck, some one will let me in on the big event before it goes public!

Oakland, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - March 17, 2006 - Tao Yang has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at search engine company, Ask.com.

According to the company, Mr. Yang is one of the foremost experts in scalable computing and algorithmic search. In his new role, Yang will drive the development and growth of Ask.com search technologies on a global scale, with a key area of focus on continued development of large-scale system infrastructure and classification technologies to deliver the most relevant search experience available for users.

Mr. Yang is a co-inventor of the ExpertRank (formally Teoma) search algorithm, having co-led search technology research and development since 2000 and has been an Ask.com executive since it acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc. in 2001. Source: Cheap Hosting Directory

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