Google buys advanced search algorithm invented by Israeli student

[meditang]

Haaretz reports that Google has recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli doctoral student at the the University of New South Wales in Australia. it seems that Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with him.

The algorithm is named Orion apparently increases the relevancy of text search results and offers a list of directly related words.

[korzon]

Very interesting. Any details on how it works?

[anjanesh]

Nothing mentioned anywhere abt the algorithm itself in brief ? I thought Google was already into this. What has Orion done thats better than Google's text search relevancy ?

[LinkSales]

It seems to me google simply bought it to keep it out of the hands of Yahoo and MSN.

[EGS]

Originally Posted by anjanesh

Nothing mentioned anywhere abt the algorithm itself in brief ? I thought Google was already into this. What has Orion done thats better than Google's text search relevancy ?

Read the full article - your answer is there.

[meditang]

Yes, it is mentioned in the full article given in that post. But it has not been given in any detail to decipher what it really is.

[webbist]

Google's existing algorithm is definately the best on the market. Google is the only search engine I'd use. Any ideas if they're actually going to impliment this or just buying it to keep competition on the low?

[Endy_0202]

Lokk forward the details about this.

[Roman]

Hope it's better than the one they have now, you know, the one invented by the Hungarian pre-schooler

[nate_king1]

Awesome, I'm still amuzed that Answers.com bought www.BrainBoost.com for $5Million a few months back! Really a nice little engine. Hopefully the can get that engine "commericalized." And that an 3vCap, Investment fund, bought www.Jux2.com in December for over $100,000.

[softgroups]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/703798.html

[Fruetel]

Looks like a variation on the topical search as it has been around for years. The article mentions that Orion also takes the quality of a website into consideration, but we don't get to know how quality is determined here. I wonder if it is some kind of TrustRank, or if it is also based on onpage content alone.

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by webbist

Google's existing algorithm is definately the best on the market. Google is the only search engine I'd use. Any ideas if they're actually going to impliment this or just buying it to keep competition on the low?

Remember the business rule "companies never do anything for just one reason". Of course Google bought the algorithm to keep it out of the hands of the competition - that goes without saying, it's a part of business warfare. But they will also examine the algorithm to see if they want to use any of it.

[Hon Daddy Dad]

Here's a Q and A with the developer:

http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//004396.html

[williamjack]

The Sydney Morning Herald reported how Google and Yahoo both expressed interest in Allon's work. Yahoo apparently came in second to Google, a familiar place for the Sunnyvale-based portal company.

[Mong]

Google has bought a new search algorithm penned by Ori Alon, an Israeli student from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Apparently they beat Microsoft and Yahoo, who were also interested in the super-advanced technique for prioritizing relevance in text-searches.

More here and here


Its new development

[BNix]

Allon is now Google employee.
If Allon don't sell his algorithm , then loan a million dollars from bank with the project

And create his own search engine , might be beat the market ?

Whoever negotiate with Allon first is very clever , maybe Eric

When Filo and Yang of Yahoo! want to loan bank for the project , The banker says somethings like "Yahoo! did you think we'll pay you?"
That's the name of Yahoo!

8 Years ago Page , Brin of Google has present the Google Projects to Yahoo! , but yahoo! rejected because it's "Unprofitable" (The Contextual Advertising just rising few years). They two go to many place to loan for buying Google server. Finally they found someone that give them $25 millions

And all is that , The Google And Yahoo Short Story

[donnareed]

This is the part that scares me:

6. My understanding is that the end user will actually be able to see the result of your research because part of what Orion is about is returning extra information to the searcher on the return search page.


Yes, that is correct.

7. Do web publisher have to fear this because it means that searchers won't have to click on their sites to get the information?


That is a very good question, I don't envision that Orion will completely eliminate the need for going to actual web pages but rather expedite the search process. It could also result in the user going to more web pages since they will be alerted to other keywords related to their search.

-from the Q and A with Ori Allon.

[BNix]

Exactly donnareed.

But without websites , Google can't live.
Google will never do somethings harm to us unless it's not harm to google
That's mean If visitors interested in your site , or looking for another pages then They will click the links.
If G decided to added this feature with Orion (Get site content by Ajax)

It Might be the Google Boycott ?
Surfers Like because save their times , Publishers hate because they pay bill and no traffic

[anjanesh]

If G decided to added this feature with Orion (Get site content by Ajax)

- This is going to eatup a lot of shared hosts' bandwidth !