A student from Israel developed an advanced search algorithm, and his work landed him a job with Google and a windfall for the University of New South Wales.
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.
Orion reportedly provides text extracts for each link found with a search, showing the keywords from the query and where they are in each extract. The idea is to keep people from having to go back and forth between the search result page and each link while looking for a page that best meets the searcher's needs.
"This will give the information directly and immediately. It will be a great time-saver for users," Allon's PhD supervisor Eric Martin at New South Wales said in the article.
The next question that should be asked here is why would Google pay for a tool they already seem to possess. In Google Book Search, such extracts or snippets of text containing keywords appear when using the service to find books containing those terms.
Search Engine Watch's Danny Sullivan posted, it could provide a list of suggested topics related to the query being made.
But that's been done as well, particularly with the Dogpile. And even on Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |  {
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