Maarek received her undergrad and grad degrees in Paris and later her PhD from Technion in Haifa. In 2006, Yoelle Maarek founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center. While there, her team contributed such features as Google Suggest, Searching Ads...
Not long ago, three researchers from Technion, including Google's Ziv Bar-Yossef, published a paper called Do not Crawl in the DUST: Different URLs with Similar Text. A few new patent filings from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com.
Ziv Bar-Yossef previously worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and was most recently at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. Another interesting recent paper he was involved with, while at Technion, looks carefully at Different...