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 this one is centered around staying ahead of the competition… for now. see full article [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘semantic search’
June 10, 2008
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”, where we have a searche that is based on “meaning” rather than on matching words [...]
