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Orion Points Arrow Toward Future of Search

A story floating around some science/computing journals right now is Orion. I don’t mean the ancient Greek god, I’m referring to a search engine in development at the University of New South Wales by PhD student Ori Allon. The Orion search engine is based on tightening searches even further by examining content that is STRONGLY related to the topic at hand.

Yahoo Not Playing Games With Search Future

Yahoo! isn’t lying down in the battle for search supremacy. They’re in it tooth and nail, scrapping with Google and MSN to build a search engine reflective of the $500 million annual engineering budget allocated to procuring the brightest talent from college campuses as well as more high profile search masters like Prabhakar Raghavan. Raghavan’s goals are lofty, stuffed with rhetoric that includes ambitions of Nobel Prize winning search technology.

The Future of Search: Finding Your Place in the Hive

The Internet is changing. In the near future, the “web” concept may prove too primitive to properly describe the evolutionary nature of the beast. Something more abstract perhaps, like Jung’s collective unconscious model-a digital beehive of collective information, honeycombs stacked high and deep with information. And so, searching the nectars of the hive should also change as spiders evolve into honeybees.

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