Browse: Companies | People | Financial Organizations
Home > People > Louis Monier

Degrees

Université de Paris, Ph.D.
Mathematics and Computer Science

Previous Companies

VP of Products
eBay Fellow, director ATG
CTO, VP of Engineering
CTO and Founder

Louis Monier

Louis Monier is best known as the founder, CTO and spokesperson for AltaVista, the first large-scale search engine on the Internet. During his 4-year tenure he took the search engine through several firsts (very fast scalable Web crawler, support for many languages), while his colleague Mike Burrows (now at Google) built the first scalable search back-end. Louis also launched BabelFish, the first machine translation site.

Louis got a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, in 1980.

After several years in research at Carnegie-Mellon, XEROX P.A.R.C. and Digital Western Research Lab, he devoted four years to AltaVista.

He was then the CTO and VP of Engineering for a Kleiner-backed start-up in the Internet barter space (BigVine).

After taking a year off he joined eBay as head of the Advanced Technology Group and eBay’s first Technical Fellow. While at eBay he rewrote the search back-end, enabling it to be both scalable and to support near-real-time updates, saving eBay billions in operational costs.

Louis then spent two years at Google where he led the design of a faceted search engine, widely used for internal applications.

Recently he was the VP of Products for Cuil. He left in September 2008, citing differences with the CEO.

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Edgeio Angel$1.5M6

Sources

  1. Citation Needed [add]
Edit This Page (Revision History)
Last Edited 12/30/08

TechCrunch Posts TechCrunch Logo Small Picture

Recent Incoming Links

Embed Widget

CrunchBase API

Sponsors



Become a Sponsor
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Licensing Policy