Microsoft Ace’d by Google Once More

Published on April 10th, 2006

Posted by John C Dvorak in Column fodder, General

Technology News: Portals & Search : Google Acquires Orion Search Algorithm — Whether this helps or not you have to wonder why Microsoft is not more aggressive about this sort of thing since it’s been pushing its search engine as if it can compete with Google. This was a seriously dropped ball. Like I’ve been saying in my columns and elsewhere Microsoft appears to be dead in the ater and nobody is notciing.

Dubbed Orion, the algorithm recommends the most relevant keywords with which to conduct a search. The English-only algorithm rates the text by quality of the site it appears in. Currently there is no public demo available.

The Orion search engine was initially designed to complement searches conducted on services such as Google, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) Latest News about Yahoo or MSN Search Latest News about MSN. In fact, Microsoft and Yahoo were also reportedly in the running for a bid at securing the next-generation method for prioritizing relevance in text searches.

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# 1 DHC said, on April 10th, 2006 at 7:42 pm

Hasnt the creator of this worked for google for awhile?

# 2 BOB G said, on April 10th, 2006 at 8:54 pm

stockholders have noticed, stocks been dead for years.

# 3 Shane said, on April 10th, 2006 at 9:18 pm

It was created by a doctoral student at an Australian university. There is a Sydney Morning Herald article on this.

# 4 gquaglia said, on April 10th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

Wasn’t Steve Ballmer screaming and yelling a few months ago on how M$ was going to kill Google? I guess he is just a fat wind bag. Not that we didn’t already know that.

# 5 jerryg said, on April 11th, 2006 at 3:19 am

your missing a ‘w’ in your “dead in the water”

# 6 Homer said, on April 11th, 2006 at 7:45 am

You’re missing an apostrophe in the contraction for “you are”.

# 7 ranron said, on April 11th, 2006 at 6:17 pm

I’m going to bet this is “Orion” algorithm is made by Brin and Page themselves that is a tad inferior to the Google engine, but still quite impressive, so that they can become richer by making update to the search engine to sell that is always a step behind of Google’s.

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