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My carrier path is about mixing industry and academic work. Nowadays, you must have a great combination of research skills and just-get-it-done attitude.

Antonio is a Principal Developement Manager, Microsoft, STC Europe, London. I work on Bing Search technology and lead all the engineering development for Enriched Web Search, Verticals, UX in Europe.

Previously, Antonio served as CTO, Europe and UK for Ask.com search engine. He started with a small team of people soon expanded into the first Ask.com European R&D Center. Pisa has been selected as location (1, 2).  He served as Director of Advanced Search Products, managing different teams of people in U.S. and in Europe. He led many projects and delivered products on-line, including Image search, News search, Fresh related search suggestions, Realtime Q&A (co-lead), Realtime web search from News and Blogs, and News video search (lead). He received the 2007 IAC Emerging Leader award, and 2006 IAC Horizon Award, for being a top performer above and beyond the expectation.

Before joining Ask.com, Antonio served as CEO of Ideare S.p.a, one of the first search companies in Europe. Antonio co-founded Ideare and sold the company to Tiscali, a public company quoted on the Italian and France stock markets. Ideare had a ROI of 44.21%.

Back in 1998, Antonio co-developed Arianna, the first Italian search engine.

Search Activities

Current
+ Bing UK and Europe, Microsoft.com

"Bing was launched under Beta tag in the UK. Microsoft at that time
promised to remove the tag only under one condition i.e if its experience
would be di erent from the competition and if the results would be outper-
forming in terms of UK relevancy. The Bing team reached its objective on
November 12, 2009 and the credit goes to London-based Search Technology
Center. Microsoft says that 60 engineers behind the project in Soho have
done extensive job at localizing the Bing global experience for the UK users
in just 5 months." searchnewz

Past  2005-2009

+ Ask.com Global web search ranking (Web Freshness, News, Blog, Video)

"I looked at search results for “Bruce Springsteen” in Google, Yahoo, and Ask, to see how current the information was from each. All three had fairly up-to-date news information. Ask actually had a richer results than the other two in terms of the images that they displayed, and their listing of future “events” or concerts for Springsteen. ... is presently showing a rich mix of images, scheduled events, web pages, and news results for the performer, and if you hover your mouse over the image next to the news results for Bruce Springsteen at Ask.com, the news video starts playing." seobythesea

+ Tina Brown's DailyBeast news engine

"How did IAC/Tina Brown's new Daily Beast do in its first month? Pretty well: The company says it attracted 2.3 million unique monthly visitors and served up 11.4 million page views. A great start for any publishing startup" alleyinsider.

+ Rushmoredrive news engine

Blacks want "everything we already get from Google plus highly relevant news," Taylor says. RushmoreDrive will deliver a more relevant search with people who identify with being black" usatoday

+ Ask.com  BigNews  (video) news, blog search engine. The engine provides fresh data to Web, Image, News and Q&A search; patent pending

"Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. " techcrunch
"And with the surprising usefulness of the site compared to some of the other social news attempts, I think it's going to succeed in gaining a good core audience.", rev2
"My vote - thumbs up. Ask.com has done well integrating social media with news in a clean, easy-to-use interface. Features like story history could save me time",  marketingpilgrim
"Sounds a bit like PageRank in that it weighs documents by their mentions, but focuses on the leading edge of the Web, on recent documents and new links between documents", Greg Linden
"it's interesting that they've managed to integrate the video playing right into the main page since I doubt all the source videos are the same format (Flash, aspx, etc.)" -- user comment
"Any innovation or changes in the news space is refreshing and welcome, and I think Ask BigNews does really well in some area, especially search (no coincidence!)", user comment

+ Ask.com in-house Image search engine, patent pending 

“Returned very accurate image results, and it has a well-designed search results page. This is a worthy alternative to Google.”,  PC-World test 2007
"Ask  new image search is a step ahead in a notoriously tricky area. With the quality of its image search results, combined with the new Zoom query refinement feature, I'll be using it as my default image search service going forward" SearchEngineWatch
 
+ Ask.com Research and Development (see some of our results).  R&D centre in Pisa and extension

1997-2005

+ Web Clustering Engine, News Search Engine,  presented at www05 conference

"My name is ... . Since two month ago I never herd about Snaket but now I'm just hock it J I love this engine, I'm exploring all this facilities and good results and despite Google is the most popular web engine I'm getting used to Snaket and I'm so happy of that.", user comment

+  Video Search Engine, Image Search Engine, used by Tiscali, Jumpy, CiaoWeb
 +  Audio Search Engine, used by Tiscali, Jumpy, CiaoWeb, Arianna
 +  Chat & Search Engine on IRC,  Shopping Comparison Engine, used by Tiscali,  EdisonTel
 +  Usenet Search Engine, used by Arianna
 +  Pseudo Real time news engine, used by Arianna, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica
 +  Web Search Engine, used by Tiscali, SuperEva, Interfree, Infocamere
+  Automatic Directory, used by Arianna, Fireball (Lycos)
 +  Spidering system, used by Arianna
 
many of these services are not online, but you can see the press releases here.

Hey! SearchEngineWatch is talking about me again.  This is a back link and there is a proof that I'm wasting ranking. But who is using just PageRank anymore these days? This is a question for the academic community.

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Books

+ A. Gulli, Clustering and Ranking for Web Information Retrieval, VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller, ISBN: 978-3836456579, 2008

Journals

+ P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. A personalized search engine based on web-snippet hierarchical clustering. Journal of  Software: Practice and Experience, 2008
+ G. M. Del Corso, A. Gulli, and F. Romani. Efficient Sparse Linear System Solution of the PageRank. The journal of ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática). Invited paper, 2007
+ P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. SnakeT: A personalized search-result clustering engine, The journal of ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática). Invited paper, 2007
+ G. M. Del Corso, A. Gulli, and F. Romani. Comparison of Krylov Subspace Methods on the PageRank Problem. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2006
+  G. M. Del Corso, A. Gulli, and F. Romani. Fast pagerank computation via a sparse linear system. Journal of Internet Mathematics, 2005, volume 2, number 3

Conferences

+ A. Gulli, S. Cataudella, L. Foschini.  A Wiki Based Model of Web Social Search, submitted for publication, 2008
+ A. Signorini, A. Gulli, A. M. Segre. Distributed Marketplaces using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography. Invited Paper. The Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems. Infoscale 2008
+ G. M. Del Corso, A. Gulli, and F. Romani. Ranking a stream of news. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 97-106, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
+ A. Gulli. The anatomy of a news search engine. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 880-881, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
+ A. Gulli and A. Signorini. Building an open source meta search engine. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 1004-1005, Chiba, Japan
+ A. Gulli and A. Signorini. The indexable web is more than 11.5 billion pages. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 902–903, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
+ P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. A personalized search engine based on web-snippet hierarchical clustering. In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 801–810, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
+ P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. The anatomy of a hierarchical clustering engine for web-page, news and book snippets. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pages 395–398, Brighton, UK, 2004.
+  P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. The anatomy of snaket: A hierarchical clustering engine for web-page snippets. In Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pages 506–508, Pisa, Italy, 2004.
+ P. Ferragina and A. Gulli. Experimenting snaket: A hierarchical clustering engine for webpage snippets. In Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pages 543–545, Pisa, Italy, 2004.
+ G. Attardi, A. Gulli and F. Sebastiani. Automatic Web page categorization by link and context analysis. In Proceedings of THAI'99, European Symposium on Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence, pages 105—119,.Varese, Italia, 1999
+  G. Attardi, A. Gulli and F. Sebastiani THESEUS: categorization by context. In Proceedings of WWW'99, 8th International Conference on the World Wide Web, pages 136 – 137, Toronto, Canada, 1999
+ A. Gulli. Jamming.Net: a Server to Balance WWW Load. In Proceedings of WebNet 98 - World Conference on the WWW and Internet & Intranet, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1998 
+  G. Di Tota, A. Gulli and D. Merletti. SqlWWW: un server Internet per accedere alla base di dati della Soprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali, Architettonici, Artistici e Storici di Pisa, con connessioni di tipo Keep-Alive. In Bollettino VI, n. 1 Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy 1998
+  G. Attardi, D. Dato and A.Gulli  Web Host Enumeration Through DNS. In  Proceedings of Webnet 97  - World Conference on the W WW, Internet & Intranet, Toronto, Canada, 1997.

Workshops:

+ G. M. Del Corso, A. Gulli, and F. Romani. Fast pagerank computation via a sparse linear system (extended abstract). In Proceedings of Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph: Third International Workshop, WAW, pages 118–130, Rome, Italy, 2004.

Education

+ Computer Science Ph.D, "On Two Web IR Boosting Tools: Clustering and Ranking" Pisa, supervisor Paolo Ferragina, internal referees: Dino Pedreschi and Francesco Romani, external referees: Andrei Broder, VP of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo! and Tomasz Imielinski, VP, Relevance and Online Systems for Ask.com. The thesis is also available on WebIR.org.
+  Engineering B.S. , Pisa
+  Computer Science B.S. , Pisa

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