Bruce Karsh

Who is Bruce Karsh?

Bruce is the lead for the Wink core search team and is responsible

for periodically reminding us that building a search engine is not a

trival task. We wouldn't normally notice since Bruce and team are so

heads down on building out the next generation of search that they make

it look easy. Fortunately for Wink, Bruce has done this before, first

at Inktomi and most recently as part of the Yahoo! Search team. Bruce

led several search projects while at Inktomi, the most recent of which

was the search toolkit where he developed the overall architecture,

designed and wrote the incremental indexing system, and managed the

software development team.

After Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo!, Bruce helped with the

transition and launch of Yahoo! Search using Inktomi, managed the

development of the page cache system, and managed the development and

internationalization of the search result abstracts. Earlier, Bruce

spent 10 years at SGI where he developed digital media software, and

the user interface software for the SGI desktop. Bruce holds an BA in

Mathematics from the University of Madison Wisconsin and is the author

of 7 patents that are pending or awarded.