Apostolos Gerasoulis is a

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professor of

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, and the co-creator of

Teoma Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic ''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Professor Tao Yang from the University of California, Sa ...

, an Internet search engine that powers

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, which Apostolos co-founded along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. Apostolos later went on to serve as the vice president of search technology at Ask.com, before leaving the company in 2010. Gerasoulis has appeared in TV commercials for Ask.com.

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