Microsoft Corp. hasn't sealed a search deal with Yahoo! Inc. yet, but it has managed to scoop up a trio of its key search experts.
The latest hire is Larry Heck, who was previously employeed by Yahoo! to work on boosting the relevancy of search results. He is joining the software giant as a vice president.
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Heck is at least the third executive Microsoft has
poached from Yahoo!.
Microsoft recently hired
Qi Lu,
who had been executive vice president of engineering for the search and
advertising technology group at Yahoo!, to be president of the online
services group. Microsoft also brought aboard Sean Suchter, a former
vice president at Yahoo!. -
Mary Kathleen Flynn
