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Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm
rcbutcher writes to tell us the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Google has just acquired the rights to a brand new text search algorithm invented by a University of NSW student. From the article: "Orion works as an add-on to existing search engines to improve the relevance of search and won praise from Microsoft founder Bill Gates last year. [...] Orion finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the key word so the user can pick the most relevant."
Something like this could be used to check if the content of first posts is related to the story or not. ;-P
Google just bought your script before Microsoft could do more than praise it; I would suggest you duck before the chair hits the fan.
For some reason my fountain pen doesn't work here.
You don't think that Gates would say anything publicly before buying all the rights if the algorithm were any good, do you?
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The algorithm, or search engine tool, is called Orion.
Way to reduce CS to the web. And that was possibly the most UN-enlightening article I've EVER read. Does anyone have a link to something with more meat??
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
Yes, but bought by an American company. USA! USA! USA!
Now THAT would be an interesting premise for a cyberpunk short story. "Got a new quantum prime sieve. Tears down the hardest ICE in a matter of nanos. What you got?" "The best Starcraft AI ever." "I'm not a fan of the old school." "Hmm... in that case, a steganographic algorithm so powerful it can hide fourty-five terabytes in your rand() seed?" "Oh, that sounds good" "6D Pong, default settings?" "Your algorithmical distinctiveness will be added to my own."
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Anyone else read it as NSFW? Heh.
Do you even know what you're talking about? Have you even tried it? It works really well. Do a search for Foster's and the first result is beer, followed by sheila, shrimp on the barbie, and g'day mate. I don't know how we ever survived before having an Aussie algorithm.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I'm just extremely proud that the inventor was a man.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
It's entirely possible that the media sources we trust to be accurate are actually riddled with errors.
::Clasps hand over mouth in mock shock and horror::
-Grey
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I couldn't tell if your fictional geeks were comparing penis sizes, wagering, or negotiating a marriage.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Yes.
KFG
if(SearchText=='crikey') rank++;
Task Mangler
Australia is a multi-cultural nation, we claim anyone as ours if they are here at the time of doing something interesting.
Except Russel Crowe, he turned out to be complete knob and we don't want him anymore, so now he's a New Zealander again.
"Call us when the New age is old enough to drink" Beck
I agree. When eBay sends me an email saying "Congratulations, you have Won!", I read "Congratulations, you're prepared to pay more for this item than anyone else in the entire world". I suppose they phrase it nicely just to stop you from feeling like a loser.
How dare you try to pull the rug out from another of our cause célèbres? See, Google is a big, famous, mostly American company, and they've bought an Australian product! That makes all Aussies famous and important and sopheeeeesteeecated! No, really, it does. Honestly. So stop trying to ruin this for us you ungrateful fuckwit, and keep saying nice things about the United States of Australia, because our egos need it.
Now watch this post get modded straight to hell by my infuriated countrymen.
What insanely great insight into language processing can a CS student have that whole teams of experts still didn't get?
Patent office.
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So I guess we know what he did with the money then.
Well, they'll be upset to learn that I've discovered the secret to always winning on eBay. You simply enter a bunch of nines into the number field. Whammo! Winner every time! Hehehehe...suckers...
This guy's the limit!
actually, you would search for "beer" and you would get Foster's...because Foster's is Australian for beer.
Oh, so it's important to you that a PERSON wrote this algorithm?
Speciesist!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.