Dan Crow, Product Manager (Crawl Systems) - Google, Inc
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Dan taught himself to program back in 1981, when 16K was a mind-bogglingly large amount of RAM and high capacity storage was a cassette player “borrowed” from his sister.
Since then he’s acquired a degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Leeds in the UK and has spent the last 15 years building software systems.
He was at Apple for four years working on QuickTime, HyperCard and the first Java virtual machine for Mac OS X. He later lead the engineering team at startup Verb which developed an intelligent search engine for B2B transactions - back when “B2B” was a trendy buzzword.
He then spent three years at Guru.com - later Unicru - as Chief Scientist and Chief Architect creating an award winning resume search engine.
In 2006 Dan joined Google’s New York office where he is Product Manager for crawl systems. He spends his time figuring out how to extend the range and quality of the content Google crawls, as well as championing the use of robots.txt.
Dan holds five patents for his work in user interface and intelligent search engines.
