The Evolution of AI in Search – Arnold Overwijk

As the web and technology are evolving, so is the use of AI in search. Arnold Overwijk showed us how Bing uses modern machine learning to explain the structure and meaning of web pages and why using the search engine APIs is even more important than ever. YoastCon 2019 took place on 7-8 February 2019 in De Vereeniging in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. We had a ton of amazing experts who shared their knowledge about all things online with our visitors! _____________ About Arnold Overwijk: Arnold Overwijk is an Engineering Lead at Bing. His work revolves around better understanding the web to power search, Q&A and other AI applications. These days, Arnold and his Beyond Language Understanding (Bling) team, focus on understanding trillions of webpages Bing knows, defining topical authority for each page and extracting key concepts with their properties from unstructured text. Prior to that Arnold was leading the team ranking all known URLs by Bing. Prior to Microsoft, Arnold studied Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at a startup that provides search for specialized applications such as expert finding, sentiment analysis over time for customer products and music detection.