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Revving Google's Search Engine
EVERY TIME you initiate a search on Google, chances are Ben Gomes has had something to do with the replies you get.
[Ben Gomes is a Distinguished Engineer at Google where he is a lead for the company's engineering efforts on search features. Ben has been with Google for more than ten years and has worked in the development of nearly all aspects of the Google search service ranging from crawling and indexing to ranking and new feature design. Prior to Google, Ben earned his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. He was born in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania. source: sites.google]
Carrying the job title of distinguished engineer, and a lead on its search projects, Gomes was born in Tanzania, graduated in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Google 11½ years ago. At the time the company was just search and he has worked on most of the developments that have taken place in the area since then.
With Google today known as one of the dominant companies in the internet space and increasingly moving into other areas, with its Android mobile platform and its Chrome browser and operating system its easy to forget that it was once just a start-up with a new take on how to search the fast-growing web. Click HERE to Read More
We have to think of it as a spectrum of search, says Gomes. its so important to ease that connection between mind and machine.