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Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-tool-for-the-belt dept.

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."

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  1. Hello World! by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man, all that time wasted writing simple "hello world" programs and number guessing games, and I could have been doing something like this.

    *gives himself an uppercut*

    --
    READY.
    PRINT ""+-0
    1. Re:Hello World! by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You don't suppose they'd be interested in my suite of APL, command line card games, do you?

      Or are those just soooooooo 1976? Well, I had to do something geeky to celebrate the bicentenial.

      KFG

  2. University of Not Safe for Work? by TACNailed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sign me up!

  3. Aussie Algorithm by wootest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bart flicks a pocket knife open and closed repeatedly
    Man: You call that a knife? This is a knife.
    Bart: That's not a knife, that's a spoon.
    Man: All right, all right, you win, heh. I see you've played Knifey-Spooney before.