Parece que Google sigue con su habilidad de atraer a importantes directivos. Esta vez le ha tocado el turno a Louis Monier, uno de los creadores de Altavista y actual directivo de I+D en eBay.

Según comenta en una entrevista, ha comentado que se siente atraido por todo lo que Google le puede ofrecer:

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? And frankly, I’m dying to peek under the hood and see the infrastructure [Google has] created. For someone like me, it’s the ultimate Christmas toy.

I find the most interesting problem in search is to think of it as a dialog rather than a one-shot thing.

I’m fascinated by the many ways we can extract real knowledge from billions of tidbits, whether they’d be Web pages, queries, links, reviews, social networks… We have a few tools today, mostly statistics to isolate repeating data from the noise, but I think we will eventually go much further. What we need are generic pattern recognition engines.