Playing with Powerset: search shows promise, has challenges (Ars Technica)

May 13th 2008 Posted to news

Powerset is the latest company to take a crack at making search better. Armed with “native language processing technology,” the semantic search startup has focused its initial offering on Wikipedia, bringing result aggregation, tags, and better tools to searching the Internet’s public encyclopedia. Ars Technica gets hands-on with Powerset’s semantic search engine to see if it has a chance once … full story here

Iain Thomson, Information World Review , Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 17:36:00 US start-up throws down gauntlet to Google Web start-up Powerset has offered a glimpse into the future of search with tools that allow Wikipedia users to employ “conversational phrasing” techniques instead of keywords…. > Read the full article full story here


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