What would you do if Google came to you in search of a nice piece of code you wrote to better search algorithms problem-solving computational procedure? Sell it?

The search tool is called Orion. And it was, and still is, being developed by 26 year old Ori Allon, a computer scientist from Israel, who studied on Melbourne's Monash University, and moved to UNSW. The tool searches only the most relevant textual results, and offers a list of topics directly related to the original source. It is planned to be completed within the next 18 months.

The patent for the Orion search tool was registered by the University, and developed within the faculty, but Ori still does retain ownership of the intellectual property developed in the Universities facilities. There were supposedly talks with Yahoo, Google and MSN, before the final decision was struck to work with Google.

The Sydney Morning Herald did confirm that Ori has started to work at Google's Mountain View Headquarters. There are no reports on the terms of the deal, however it is expected that it is potentially worth millions.