eBay-zoekspecialist naar Google
June 23rd, 2005 door Erwin Boogert
Omdat het toch al geruchtendag is nog even het volgende. Om Malik, journalist bij Business 2.0, meldt op zijn weblog (en hij zit er vaak niet ver naast):
“(…) Silicon Valley insiders are whispering that Louis Monier, ebay’s director of advanced technology group, might be leaving online auction house’s San Jose digs, trading them in for an office further north on Highway 101 at GooglePlex in Mountain View. I am told he is going to be helping with Froogle. (…) Monier, in case you don’t remember is one of the super brains behind AltaVista, the uber search engine before Google became everyone’s darling. (…)”
Update (240605):
En in een e-mailinterview met John Battelle bevestigt Monier zijn vertrek en legt het waarom uit:
“(…) The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google. So rather than chewing on variations of e-commerce for the next few years, I’m very tempted to play with radically new stuff: satellites images, machine translation, ways to extract knowledge from giant bodies of data … who knows what else? (…) The agenda is “Whatever I want” (…)”
Dank Frans