Thursday, September 20, 2007

USZA.30 - Search Editor II - IC2 at Yahoo

Location : Sunnyvale, CA
Description : The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

The successful candidate will contribute to Yahoo's results quality measurement and anti-spam efforts by:

  • Participating in relevance tests designed to measure data quality across Yahoo's web search product line.
  • Building training sets to support the development of automated classifiers.
  • Analyzing search user session data to identify relationships between queries, classify query transitions, and draw inferences about user satisfaction from click behaviors and query reformulation chains.
  • Contributing to the development of web spam detection methods.
  • Performing other web search data QA tasks as assigned.
Experience classifying data into taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, or some other formal classification scheme is strongly desired. Basic knowledge of the structure and functionality of web search and directory services is required, as is an understanding of web search strategies and techniques. Familiarity with HTML, XML, or other SGML markup languages is strongly preferred. Fluency in at least one language other than English is preferred. Some knowledge of at least one scripting language is desirable, as is familiarity with mySQL databases.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Science, Linguistics, or related field. Advanced degree desirable.
  • Sufficient knowledge of Unix and/or Linux to be able to invoke various spam detection scripts from a command line.
  • Experience classifying large volumes of data into complex classification schemes.
  • Ability to assess the authoritativeness, topical pertinence, and overall quality of web pages.
  • Demonstrated written and oral communication skills.
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