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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.