Powerset Launches "Understanding Engine" For Wikipedia Content

After nearly two years in the making -- and plenty of hype -- Powerset has finally rolled out a "natural language" search engine. It's not a Google killer. It's barely a business model right now. But at least it's something the world can finally play with, and under the hood, there's lots ...

May. 12, 2008 at 12:01am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Official: Microsoft Buys Powerset

Consistent with the rumors last week, Microsoft confirmed today that it has acquired Powerset for an undisclosed amount (speculation put it at around $100 million). The company was reportedly valued at just over $40 million. It appears that Microsoft was motivated to acquire Powerset as much or more ...

Jul. 1, 2008 at 2:42pm Eastern by Greg Sterling

Powerset Teams Up With Live Search

Powerset, the semantic search engine that Microsoft purchased in July, has been collaborating with Microsoft's Live Search team on several projects designed to be released within 30 days. Microsoft is currently testing them on a small, randomly selected audience. The projects include: Freebase answers ...

Sep. 17, 2008 at 6:38pm Eastern by Chris Sherman

Powerset Licenses Xerox PARC Natural Language Tech

Both VentureBeat and the New York Times are out today with an update on Powerset, which has won the rights to natural language search technology from Xerox PARC that it hopes will make it into the new Google, when Powerset finally launches. VentureBeat also gives us news of at least one person from ...

Feb. 9, 2007 at 9:37am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition

... . So far, it doesn't sound like a social networking play like some of the others. We'll be watching, Rich. Also see discussion today on Techmeme. Powerset Powerset is now a classic example of why you WANT to be a stealth start-up and say little. That's because when you get too much early press -- in ...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 8:40am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: You Can Search Techmeme You can now search for past Techmeme articles directly on the site or at http://techmeme.com/search/. Techmeme's founder, Gabe Rivera, announced ...

May. 20, 2008 at 4:41pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Changes At Natural Language Search Company Powerset

Big management changes are going on at Powerset, which has received much attention for its potential in using natural language processing for search. Barney Pell, who has been CEO at Powerset, posted today in his blog that he is transitioning to CTO, that Steve Newcomb, who had been COO, is leaving ...

Nov. 2, 2007 at 1:37pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 12, 2008

... Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched. A search for Astalavista at Yahoo returned, what appeared to be a. Powerset Launches "Understanding Engine" For Wikipedia Content After nearly two years in the making -- and plenty of hype -- Powerset has finally ...

May. 12, 2008 at 4:00pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2008

... from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Google & Other Search Engines Dominate Traffic Drivers To Wikipedia When writing about Powerset this week, I covered how its hopes to gain Wikipedia users was complicated by the fact that Wikipedia itself gets so many people from search, ...

May. 14, 2008 at 3:23pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Announcements & Products Out Of TechCrunch 40

... , ZingFu.com is a social networking resource site with 600,000 registered members. TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery: In this session Powerset, a natural language search service, announced its new Powerset Labs. Also in that session were Cognitive Code, a company that created human-like ...

Sep. 18, 2007 at 10:00am Eastern by Barry Schwartz