Jon Glick Joins Become.com from Yahoo!; Search Veteran is Named Senior Director of Product Search and Comparison Shopping.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Become.com (www.become.com), a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced that search engine expert Jon Glick has joined as Senior Director of Product Search and Comparison Shopping. Glick brings more than 14 years of experience in technical management, marketing and search technologies. He will head the development of Become.com's comparison shopping service, and will report to Chris Kermoian, Vice President of Product Management. Glick joins Become.com from Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) where he headed Product Management for Yahoo!'s web crawling, indexing, search relevancy, and assisted search initiatives. He was an instrumental part of the team that launched Yahoo!'s in-house web search in 2004, displacing Google (Nasdaq:GOOG GOOG Google, Inc. (stock symbol) ). Previously he served as Director of Internet Search for both Overture Services and AltaVista. "Jon is exceptionally talented in designing and delivering industry-leading technologies in the internet search space. He's one of the recognized leaders in web search, and we are thrilled to have him as part of the management team here at Become.com," said Michael Yang Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. , founder, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Become.com. "While search has improved significantly, both the core technology of link analysis and the user interface haven't changed much since Google launched in the late '90s. Become.com has the ability to revolutionize both," said Mr. Glick. "I'm excited to join Become.com and be part of the next revolution in internet search and online shopping. Become.com has a fantastic team, bleeding edge A pun on "leading edge." It implies that using the latest technology is often risky because it has not been tested with enough users and may not perform as expected. Introducing an advanced product or service is also risky because the user community may not be ready for it or really want technology, and is well positioned to redefine the internet search experience," added Glick. Glick holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. , and a B.S. in Computer-Aided Mechanical Design from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. . He currently lives in Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , CA, and is a frequent triathlon competitor. About Become.com Become.com is a search engine for shopping that helps people find product reviews and buying information on millions of products across the web. Founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, founders of pioneering online comparison shopping site mySimon, Become.com indexes over 2.2 billion pages of shopping-related information from over 20 million web sites and uses proprietary ranking technology AIR (Affinity Index Ranking) to deliver targeted and relevant information for shopping searches. |
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