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Microsoft buys Powerset, Gets Foot in Semantic Search Door

Microsoft announced in June that it has purchased natural language search startup Powerset in hopes of adding its team and technology to Live Search. The move is yet another attempt by Microsoft to chip away at Google’s market share, but at least … Continue reading

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Powerset

 powerset.com – launched in 2005, based in San Francisco, CA Powerset is a semantic search service. It searches wikipedia only at the moment but may go further in the future. It appears to be an implementation of Tim Berners Lee’s “Semantic Web”, … Continue reading

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