The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

            Challenges of Searching the Global Internet

Group:      International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
                 (A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date:       September 20, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker:    Peter Linsley (Ask.com)
Topic:      Challenges of Searching the Global Internet
Location:   Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
                 Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
                 Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
                 Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room.
                 Please arrive by 7:10, as the door is not monitored
                 after this time.
Admission:  $4; free for IMUG members
Contact:    Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
                 roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com
Website:   http://www.imug.org
 
Search Engines work hard to deliver on the simple promise: to take your keywords, sift through several billion documents and come up with a small handful most likely to answer your query.  With a focus on language, character set, and cultural issues, the presentation will cover some key challenges in crawling, indexing and making documents of the world searchable.
 
Peter joined Ask.com in 2005 and currently works as a Technical Product Manager in the Search Technology group.
 
Prior to Ask.com, Peter worked as an engineer at Oracle Corporation in Japan and Silicon Valley where he worked on internationalization of the database and was also responsible for bringing globalized regular expression support to Oracle SQL.

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