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Google Buys Search Algorithm Developed by Student

or [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, April 9, 2006
18 years ago12,459 views

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/703986.html

Apparently Google bought an advanced text search algorithm developed by Ori Alon, a Israeli student; he now works at Google.

It seems Microsoft and Yahoo were also trying to get a hold of this, so it must be some big deal.

or [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Found the following article on the search technology – http://www.webpronews.com/insidesearch/insidesearch/wpn-56-20050907OrionPointsArrowTowardFutureofSearch.html

or [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Another article with more details – http://www.physorg.com/news6255.html
Ok, i'll stop posting on this now, the first news article misspelled the guys name.The correct spelling is Ori Allon. Because of the misspelling, I was finding it difficult to find more info.

Travis Harris [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Sounds like it uses something like google sets to increase value of search results.... interesting!

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Hmm.. this news is from Sept. 2005 and is now big news?

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

the news is that the guy was hired by Google. and that happened very recently

elias Kai [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Good Luck Ori alon.

Great that Google got hold on you and no one else.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

This is a post of Franck Poisson, from Exalead (future big search engine...), about this algorithm :
http://franckpoisson.blogs.com/blogapart/2006/04/la_dernire_acqu.html

I tried to translate :

"The last aquisition of Google is... a student
(...describtion of algorithm...)
[On exalead], we have got the same since 6 years... it's called REFINE on Exalead..."

ADM [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

I'm not sure why everyone is all fired up over Orion, this technology already exists in ConceptQ Pro.

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Anyone know anything about Ori Allon, the Googler???

PANASONIC [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

Interesting, but navigation system is a little bit confusing

PANASONIC [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

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