Talk:Eric Brill

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Home page -> Photograph ?[edit]

Small note to 131.107.0.96 who kindly pointed to the current home-page: Eric, if that's you, who you also be as kind as to provide a photograph under a Free licence ? Thank you very much, I love your work ! :) Rama 21:34, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion[edit]

A quick google search shows many sites discussing Brills move from his poition as head of Microsofts adCentre to his post at ebay as vice president of research. The fact that the article has not been expanded for 20 months does not show that it is unexpandable. The move from Microsoft to ebay gained enough attention to assert notability so I went ahead and removed the tag proposing the article for deletion as it just needs more work. Weakopedia (talk) 12:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not in citation[edit]

"and was quoted in 2004 as predicting only brief success for Google's search engine business"

This is not in the citation as I read it. He was saying that search in general, while not short of money, could end up being commoditized; and that Google's current document-centric approach was vulnerable to new, improved, Microsoft-wins-again vapourware. That second point was standard Microsoft rhetoric of the era, and it's not to Brill's credit that he regurgitated the party line. — MaxEnt 06:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]