Yahoo! has appointed Dr. Qi Lu as the Senior Vice President for Search and Search Marketing. Lu will be leading development efforts around Yahoo!’s Web search and monetization platforms.


Yahoo! has appointed Dr. Qi Lu as the Senior Vice President for Search and Search Marketing. Lu will be leading development efforts around Yahoo!’s Web search and monetization platforms.

Lu will report to Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Farzad Nazem.

Previously Lu was the vice president of engineering at Yahoo!. He was responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!’s Search and Marketplace business unit which includes the company’s search, e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products.

Lu played a key role in the development of Yahoo!’s recently launched social search products, including My Web 2.0 and Yahoo! Answers.

Lu said: “Yahoo!’s Web search and search monetization efforts are a core focus for the company and I’m eager to continue to leverage my experience in these areas to explore ways to develop new search technology that will ultimately benefit our users”.

He added, “I look forward to contributing to the innovation and delivery of world-class services to the global Internet community.”

Nazem said about Lu: “Over the past few years, Qi has attracted some of the best and brightest talent, amassing a world-class team of Search engineers. He also has made tremendous progress with various Yahoo! services including the development of the Yahoo! Search platform”.

He said, “He is a proven thought leader in Web search and he will continue to be a valuable asset to the long-term growth goals of Yahoo!’s engineering team.”

Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. He has received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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