Google search guru Manber leaves

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The Wall Street Journal has just revealed that Udi Manber, one of Google's search gurus, has left the company to join the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Mamber is one of Google's most important executives, leading its core search division for eight years. Last year, Mamber joined YouTube as head of search. Mamber joined Google in 2006 when Google had only 46% of the search market share, which has now grown to 62%.

It is not clear why Manber left Google. But in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, he said that improving medical search was one of the key reasons for his departure. He said: "I have had a wonderful 9 years at Google and YouTube, but I couldn't resist the amazing opportunity presented by NIH. Improving access to medical knowledge will have a significant impact, and I hope I can help."

Before joining Google, Manber was in charge of A9.com, a lab owned by e-commerce giant Amazon in Palo Alto, California. Previously, Manber served as chief scientist at Yahoo and professor at the University of Arizona.

Google is the world's largest search engine, so Manber's departure is highly anticipated. We may have to wait and see what innovations he brings to the medical search field, but we can foresee that Manber's research will definitely be related to people and relationships. As he said in a previous interview:

Search is always about people. It’s not an abstraction or a formula. It’s about what people are looking for. The art of ranking is taking many signals and putting them together in some order. A signal from your friends is a better and stronger signal. On the other hand, many searches are “long tail searches”.

If you're looking for a movie to see tonight, your friends are likely to give you the best information. If you're looking for a career to pursue, all the websites will give you better information. If you're looking for something vague, the websites will give you better information. The search results are largely based on the type of search you're doing, how you get those signals, and how you combine them.