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Yebol is a new, San Jose, CA based search engine company focusing on the development of a knowledge-based, semantic search engine platform. Yebol uses its artificial and human intelligence-infused algorithms to automatically cluster and categorize search results, Web sites, pages and contents. It aims to create a unique "homepage look" for every possible search term. It launched its public beta version, Yebol.com, on July 27, 2009. At the time of its beta launch, Yebol officially released that it covered more than 10 million search terms with its knowledge-based, organized results format. The company estimates that by the end of 2009 it will cover all conceivable search terms in its intelligent search results format.

Technology
Yebol aims to combine the strengths of automated results generation engines, such as Google, with those of human-authored results engines, such as Mahalo. Yebol is designed to utilize a combination of patented algorithms paired with human knowledge to build a Web directory for each search query. They have focused on developing a group of algorithms of association, clustering and categorization for automatically generating knowledge for search concepts, web sites, web pages and users. Yebol also integrates human labeled information into its algorithms. This technology allows for a multi-dimensional search results format: higher – summary of top sites and categories for queries; wider – related search terms; longer – results of expansion terms for the queries; deeper – inside links and keywords of search result pages. Instead of a multi-page, list-based search results format, Yebol provides a categorized structure of results on one screen, aimed at creating a "homepage" for any given topic.

History & Founder
Yebol was founded by Hongfeng Yin, Ph.D., who has more than 20 years research and development experience on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, data mining and search. Most recently, Yin worked for more than four years at Yahoo! Data Mining Research team, where he built the core behavioral targeting technologies, products and more than a thousand models, which generate multi-hundred millions revenue. Prior to Yahoo, he was a software manager and Sr. staff software engineer with KLA-Tencor. He worked several years on noetic sciences and human think theory with professor Dai Ruwei and professor Tsien Hsue-shen (Qian Xuesen) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada and Masters degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Hongfeng has multiple patents on search engine, behavioral targeting and contextual targeting.

Other Principals
Jack Yuan, Board of Directors Jack Yuan is a co-founder of SanDisk and has served as Senior Vice President. SanDisk has grown to become the world's largest supplier of innovative flash memory data storage products with over $3 billion in annual revenues and more than 3000 employees. He has a Master degree in Materials Science and Engineering from UCLA and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Professor Dai Ruwei, Advisor Professor Dai Ruwei, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Automation, President of the Chinese Association of Automation, Vice Chairman of the CAS Technical Science Department, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He has published 5 books and 200 papers on automatic control, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, intelligent control and noetic sciences.

Charles Chang, Board of Directors Charles Chang is the owner of Eagletech International Inc. and operates various OEM facilities in Taiwan and China. The highlight of his business includes, but not limited to, PC related mechanical components, store fixtures, home organizers, home appliance components and pet products. He also set up Freshwind Foundation in 2005 as his arm of charity.