01/14/08

I'm a technologist and innovator at Yahoo!, Santa Clara, CA. -- leading an engineering team within Yahoo! Web Search while focusing on the areas of data mining, contextual analysis, and contextual / semantic search. More recently I started exploring Semantic Web technologies, and how they can be leveraged to further improve the Web Search experience.

I invented, built, and deployed two products in the past years at Yahoo!: Contextual Shortcuts, which is live in Yahoo! Mail and on Yahoo! News (look for those dotted underlined word/terms that bring up a popup overlay), and an earlier Contextual Search experiment called Y!Q.

Here are some blog post and articles that describes Contextual Shortcuts in more detail:

• Yahoo! Shortcuts: Illumination @ the Point of Inspiration

• Enhance your blog posts with Yahoo! Shortcuts

• A presentation overview of the Contextual Shortcuts at University San Francisco, April 16, 2007
• Selection-based Search article

  Before Y! Shortcuts I invented and built Y!Q Contextual Search. Here are some related blog posts:

• Inspired: A Conversation with Reiner Kraft
• Y!Q: Adding Context to Search
• New Y!Q Features for Publishers and Developers
• We're on the hunt for great uses of Y!Q...
• Announcing the Y!Q Challenge Winners
• Toolbar and Messenger raise their Y!Q
• Y!Q in Firefox, and Hacks Galore
• Geeking with Greg - Y!Q Contextual Search
• The Search Engine Report - Number 106

  You will probably find more articles soon on our Y! Search Blog.

  Also, here is a list of my papers/publications, along with my latest list of issued patents, and list of patent applications (still growing ;-)

More about Reiner

• My Xing profile
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• TR35 2002 Profile