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Mike Burrows and Louis Monier

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THEN: Main Creators of Altavista (with DEC research team, 1995)
NOW: Googler; Ex-Googler and Ex-Cuiler

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While at Digital Equipment Corporation, Mike Burrows and Louis Monier helped create popular search engine AltaVista. What began as a relatively streamlined interface became a cluttered Web portal in 1999, when new owner Compaq re-launched the site to compete with Yahoo! But it was all for naught: Yahoo! eventually acquired AltaVista in 2003.

Burrows stayed with Compaq until 2001, when he joined Microsoft to work on spam prevention. Since 2003, he has been a principal engineer at Google.

Monier resigned as CTO of AltaVista in 1999 for a brief stint at Doublebill.com. He later became an eBay Fellow and director of the company’s Advanced Technology Lab, where he continued to tinker with search. In 2005, he joined Google to lead the design of a faceted search engine. Monier departed last summer to join Google competitor Cuil as VP of Products. But earlier this month -- just weeks after the search engine’s lackluster launch -- he abruptly resigned,

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