Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 9, 2006 @04:41PM 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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Uh..... by killeena · 2006-04-09 17:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

You can buy algorithms?

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. -Theodor Adorno
Re:Business as usual by zanglang · 2006-04-09 20:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

Except in this case, this implies that G00gle can't innovate and only buy others innovation as well? ;)
Why buy an "algorithm"? by ankura · 2006-04-09 20:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

An algorithm is a mathematical object which anybody can implement. Or is there something I'm missing here?