Orion, an advanced method of searching created by computer science student, Ori Allon, at the University of New South Wales in Australia has been getting a lot of attention lately. It looks like Google may have chalked another one up by acquiring the creator and potentially the technology behind Orion.

Unfortunately there is no public demo of Orion, but this system is said to give users the most relevant results and a list of suggested topics that the user may not be aware of — similar to QTsearch.

It is definitely a hot commodity as rumors say Microsoft and Yahoo were both trying to swing a deal with Ori and the university. Google has confirmed that Ori Allon now works at Google’s Mountain View location, but that’s all anybody could get out of Google, Allon or the university.

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Apr. 3, 2006 (China Knowledge) – Baidu was China’s most popular search engine in 2005, with a market share of 56.6% while Google was second with 32.8%, according to an iResearch report.

China’s search engine market has been dominated by Baidu and Google. They account for as much as 89.4% of the market.

The report also illustrates that the number of China’s search engine users amounted to 97.06 million in 2005, which is 87.4% of the total number of Internet users. The percentage figure was 7.4 percentage points more than the previous year. iResearch forecasts that China’s search engine users will exceed 100 million in 2006, accounting for 88.1% of the total number of Internet users.

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Google has beaten arch rivals to once again notch top slot in the search engines’ category.

As per the Nielsen/NetRatings report Google has been voted the world s most popular search engine, with 48.5 percent of all searches conducted in the US in February 2006 having been carried out on Google.

Lagging behind Google are Yahoo that managed 22.5 per cent of online searches, while MSN took-up 10.7 percent of the total online search share. AOL and My Way Search rounded out the top five search providers with 6.6 and 2.7 percent of searches, respectively.

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Internet giant Google is launching a financial news, quotes and blogging service in bid to compete with and online broker firms and rivals such as Microsoft and Yahoo!.

The company has unveiled a beta or trial version of Google Finance that uses keyword searches to enable users to find information on share prices, company pages, currency prices and other financial news.

Google will also incorporate a blog into the service alongside a moderated discussion forum similar to Google Groups and moderated by human editors.

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