General search engines are inadequate for professional search needs. 
However, the dominance of search platforms like Google and Bing has resulted in lack of innovation in the commercial search space. We're looking for PhD doctorates who want to do the impossible and take on these giants.

We're looking for bold candidates who don't want to take the typical route out of academia and into the general software engineering positions available at these places. Instead we want people who can utilise their passion and expertise in IR to contribute to the next true innovation in search.

The ideal PhD doctorate will have published at the top conferences or journals in their field as a result of original, independent research. Knowledge of and intuition for tasked based IR and web search will need to be demonstrated, as well as solid scientific programming skills. Experience with pre-emptive search prediction, behavioural modelling, reinforcement learning, and utility modelling is particularly welcome.

Key tasks (depending on skills) for the next 12 months are: 
- To develop user behaviour models 
- To develop pre-emptive search strategies 
- To develop utility models for entities and web pages 
- To publish and represent Context Scout and national and international research venues