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May 29, 2009

Yoelle Maarek Joins Yahoo! Labs

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Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research. She will be leading the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa, Israel along with Ronny Lempel. Their teams help further Yahoo!’s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web.

You might know Yoelle as the former engineering director at the Google Haifa Engineering Center, which she founded in 2006. Her team launched features such as Google Suggest, Searching Ads, and Interactive Annotations on YouTube. Prior to Google, Yoelle was with IBM Research, where she held series of technical and management positions, first at T.J. Watson Research in New York, and then at the IBM Haifa Research Lab in Israel. You can go to Yoelle’s website to read all about her impressive research experience in information retrieval, Web applications, and collaborative technologies.

Prabhakar Raghavan
Head of Yahoo! Labs and Yahoo! Search Strategy

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  1. manishma yoelle – and congratulations (to all of yahoo! i suppose ;) – eager to see how many googlers follow suit in israel…

    Posted by: dave | May 29th, 2009 5:24 pm

  2. Best of luck to Ms. Yoelle Maarek.

    Posted by: InternetGaze | June 1st, 2009 5:48 am

  3. Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome. Hopefully she will bring more ‘magic’ inside yahoo! :)

    Posted by: Melayu Boleh | June 7th, 2009 6:35 pm

  4. Best wishes for Yoelle on her new endeavor. Found this article by coincidence, while searching (I have to admit via ‘Google’) for some of Yoelle’s and Ronnie’s publications.

    Posted by: AndreasP | June 15th, 2009 12:00 am

  5. Their teams help further Yahoo!’s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web.http://www.heelsunion.com

    Posted by: pier | June 29th, 2009 11:15 pm

  6. Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome.

    Posted by: sikis | July 14th, 2009 9:24 pm

  7. Nice article. Thanks for this.

    Posted by: Joschi | September 21st, 2009 2:47 pm

  8. Congrats Yoelle Maarek! She background was awesome. Hopefully she will bring more ‘magic’ inside yahoo

    Posted by: doğum günü hediyeleri | October 29th, 2009 2:59 am

  9. Our congratulations to you Yoelle Maarek. You have a lot capability. For me you are wonder woman.

    Posted by: Eddy Tembilung | November 21st, 2009 12:07 am

  10. Congrats Yoelle Maarek! Nice Job and keep you the good work.

    Posted by: Nursery Gliders | February 4th, 2010 10:21 am

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