I learned that Eric Billingsley designed nuclear power plants before coming to eBay. Since joining eBay he designed its new search engine, among other things. I talk about all that and more (and get some cool eBay demos) with Eric Billingsley.

The search engine he built is really interesting and hearing Eric talk about trying to make Google and other engines work is fascinating. Remember, everything in eBay needs to be found in the search engine and found NOW. Google doesn’t get new items into its index for days. That’d be totally unacceptable for eBay.