September 14, 2005

Aussies to turn web search upside down

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Vnunet reports : Australian researchers have patented a method of exploring the web which they claim could revolutionise existing search engines.

Developed by Ori Allon, a 26 year-old PhD student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Orion search engine is designed to complement searches conducted on services such as Google, Yahoo or MSN Search.

Allon explained that conventional search engines find pages in which keywords occur and that sometimes these pages are important to the topic, but at other times are not.

Orion is designed to find pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the keyword. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the keyword so that the user can pick the most relevant.

“The results to the query are displayed immediately in the form of expanded text extracts giving you the relevant information without having to go the website, although you still have that option if you wish,” said Allon.

“By displaying results to other associated keywords directly related to your search topic, you gain additional pertinent information that you might not have originally conceived, thus offering an expert search without having an expert’s knowledge.”

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2 responses to "Aussies to turn web search upside down"

  1. # Zeev commented on September 15th, 2005:

    The problem is that you can not test this revolutionary new search engine.
    There is another revolutionary micro content aggregator that you can test on
    http://qtsaver.dynalias.com/

  2. # imran commented on November 5th, 2005:

    Hi

    I did like your blog postings and comments. I have one question.

    Can any 1 harm our rankings in google or any search engine ?

    Regards

    Imran Hashmi
    http://www.visionstudio.co.uk

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