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."

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Re:Challengin other search engines

[Dissectional]

SMH doesn't hire journalists. Rather, they employ a mob of thumbless monkeys, armed with rolling pins and keyboards and let them have at it.

Re:WOW

[Ohreally_factor]

Thank the gods you didn't link to penis bird.