Anna Patterson
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Anna Patterson is currently the President of Cuill. She is famous for having created the world's biggest search engine index consisting of 30 billion pages using information from the Internet Archive at Archive.org
[edit] Career
Anna received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a research scientist at Stanford University working on data mining. Anna also created the world's biggest search engine index consisting of 30 billion pages using information from the Internet Archive at Archive.org after which she was employed by Google until 2007 where she took her current role as President and Founder of Cuill.
At Google, she was the architect of Google's large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006. Anna joined Google in 2004, and besides serving architecture, she was the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups at Google, in charge of GoogleBase, and the manager for a core piece of Google's ads-matching technology.
[edit] Personal life
She is the mother to four children and married to Tom Costello.
[edit] External links
- Acmqueue interview "Why Writing a Search Engine is Hard"
- Cuill founders page
- Anna's Stanford Page

