"I am excited to join Yahoo!’s leading Internet researchers in exploring emerging search technologies that will distill all the information that the Web has to offer to the maximum benefit of our users."

"The industry is pretty small, and I had offers from Yahoo and the other big guys in search."

"I have many friends at all three, and no matter which one I chose, two-thirds of my friends would be unhappy that I didn’t chose them."

"My background is research."

"People often ask what is the difference between research and advanced development."

"It’s a very interesting question these days, because it used to be that research looks five years forward and advanced development is much shorter term."

"That’s not true any longer because the cycle has become so short."

"Research and advanced development are beginning to sync up."

"The goal of research is to advance the state of the art in the world."

"The entire research community together advances the state of the art."

"Companies, such as IBM and Microsoft, support research because the pie gets larger and everyone benefits."

"Yahoo intends to pursue a similar open approach to development, research and publishing and the research environment and goals at Yahoo are more compelling to me right now."

"I was in New York, but I am very glad to be back in California."

"I was working in Hawthorne, just outside of Manhattan, and lived in Riverdale, it was nice."

"There’s no place like New York, culturally."

"By the way, we have offices in New York; Yahoo Research has an outfit there in the old HotJobs office."

"I broke my shoulder skiing four years ago, and now that I’ve moved back to California."

"Not while skiing, but While I was at AltaVista, I traveled a lot."

"On a trip from Rome to Zurich, I was writing email and doing other things you normally do on a business trip, and seated next to me was a Korean-American girl, 9 years old, very talkative."

"She was asking me lots of questions, what do you do, what kind of computer is that."

"I was telling her I work at AltaVista."

"I know that it’s a search engine, but we are not allowed to use it."

"So a precocious 9 year old knows what I am working on, that was pretty amazing. *If I had said Digital or Compaq, she would have no idea what I was talking about."

"That’s the magic of the web."