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发信人: thanksgiving (###), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 世界最牛的search算法天才engineer被Twitter买了。。。
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 22 00:14:55 2011, 美东)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/21/twitter-julpan/
In 2006, Google acquired the exclusive rights to a search algorithm called
Orion. They outbid Yahoo and Microsoft on the deal, which was the PhD work
of a 26-year-old University of New South Wales student named Ori Allon.
Allon went on to work for Google, integrating his system into their main
search algorithm, where it still plays a key role. Allon left in 2010 to
found a new startup, Julpan. It didn’t take long for someone to scoop him
up again.
Twitter has just announced that they’ve acquired Julpan for an undisclosed
sum. The startup focuses on analyzing social information that is shared on
social services like Twitter, so this is a natural fit. This will enable
Twitter to come up with ways to surface relevant content to users as more
and more of it keeps flowing into the system. Twitter has recently stated
that this is a key area of focus.
Twitter is acquiring both the technology and the full team of roughly 12.
They will work out of Twitter’s New York office (where Julpan has been
based).
Allon will become a director of engineering at Twitter. He writes on Julpan
’s site:
I am very proud to announce that Julpan has been acquired by Twitter.
We founded Julpan more than a year ago. In that time we’ve created
innovative, early-alpha-stage search technology that analyzes social
activity across the Web to deliver fresh and relevant content to users.
Twitter houses an industry-leading engineering team that is tackling
some of the Internet’s most interesting opportunities. With more than 230
million Tweets per day on every subject imaginable, Twitter gives us a
chance to make an even greater contribution toward instantly bringing people
closer to what is most meaningful to them. We look forward to joining
forces with Twitter’s engineering team to explore how we can best integrate
and optimize Julpan’s innovations.
I’d like to personally thank the talented engineers, architects and
designers of Julpan. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people
with whom to invent some of the world’s best social search technology. |
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