How much of an impact will Semantic Search have?
Do we really need a better search for the Internet? And when it exists will anyone choose to use it?
There has been a lot of press lately about challengers to the current keyword search kings: Google Yahoo and Microsoft. There are a variety of different approaches being taken but a lot of the debate has [...]
Powerset Opens Up
I had the pleasure of attending a small gathering at Powerset’s office in San Francisco this evening to get a preview of what’s to come from the highly publicized start up. A lot of interesting demonstrations were given and we heard a lot about the technology and platform they’re building.
Powerset is based around Natural [...]
Powerset, the best search engine ever… for Wikipedia only?
Powerset is continuing with their promise to release a new example query every week. This week they seek to answer the question “what did steve jobs say about the about the iPod?” with results from Wikipedia. It’s fairly clear from the results that Google has trouble determining what the Real Steve [...]
More info out of Powerset
Powerset has released another tiny tidbit of information about their upcoming natural-language based “Google Search”-killer. This time they’re giving a quick glimpse at “Powerlabs”. It looks like they’re positioning Powerlabs as a playground and testbed for new products and concepts much like another site that comes to mind.
The example screen shot shows what [...]
