Two search technologists previously from Yahoo and Powerset have teamed up to create an app designed to turn searching on its head. Search Technology team), Tim Converse (ex-Powerset) and Tuoc Vinh Luong (the VC savvy), spoke to SEW over the phone...
This week a new engine was launched by FacteryLabs - an search technology company founded by Paul Pedersen and Sean Gaddis who have worked at Google, Powerset, eBay, and Skype. The search industry has seen a lot of new engines developed moving...
We promote the new things that make a splash and forget they ever existed as they fade into obscurity (see: Cuil, Powerset, etc. We're a society of predictors. And from Jim Cramer to countless overconfident athletes, a lot of predictions go awry.
Powerset plays a key role in these groupings. Yes, Microsoft's Bing is a rebranding of Live Search, but there are added features which make it a whole new search engine from the software giant. What's being carried over from Live Search include the...
Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions) The long-awaited unveiling of Microsoft's new search product finally came today at the D7 conference. Wall Street reacted positively with a 2.11% increase on MSFT...
That's why more people go straight to Wikipedia or use tools such as Powerset. Today, I give my gift to Facebook: four ways to make some big money this year. Be a Better Google Google owns close to 100-percent market share in the search engine wars...
Microsoft acquires semantic search engine Powerset It was one heck of a year for the search industry. The convergence of outside economic forces, a wild presidential election and the 2008 Beijing Olympics were all signs of an industry becoming more...
Freebase Answers Live Search wanted to include more of Live Search Answers, so they made use of Freebase, an open, shared database and something Powerset incorporates . Powerset's First Integrations with Live Search Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep...
Microsoft acquired semantic search company Powerset earlier this year, and now the Live Search team is revealing the first integrations of Powerset with Live Search. Freebase Answers Live Search wanted to include more of Live Search Answers, so...
Ciao joins Farecast, FAST, and Powerset in Microsoft's portfolio of search-related acquisitions for 2008. Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online, the owner of Ciao, a European price comparison and shopping site.
Microsoft acquired semantic search company Powerset earlier this year. After the latest round of attempted negotiations with Yahoo and investor Carl Icahn, Microsoft is once again saying that it is moving on from trying to acquire the second-place...
Powerset, which was recently acquired by Microsoft, is another example of NLP. These NLP semantic search providers "extract entities from text, disambiguate them against large-scale background knowledge sources (PowerSet uses Freebase, Hakia has...
The decrease is not really a surprese since Microsoft has essentially admitted how bad their search is in their attempt to acquire Yahoo, and their successful acquisitions of FAST and Powerset. AdGooroo has released second quarter search...
From Redmond, It's Microsoft Powerset Live! Microsoft has agreed to buy Powerset, the semantic search engine touted as the next generation of search. Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine that the metaphor-challenged...
Microsoft has agreed to buy Powerset, the semantic search engine touted as the next generation of search. Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine that the metaphor-challenged mainstream media call the Google Killer.
Microsoft to (Finally) Acquire Powerset? Venture Beat is now reporting that Microsoft is poised to acquire semantic search company Powerset in the neighborhood of . Today's Top Story GreggStewart Creative Messaging in a Direct Response World...
Venture Beat is now reporting that Microsoft is poised to acquire semantic search company Powerset in the neighborhood of $100 million. Or the one where they're buying Powerset (to once again put pressure on Yahoo)?
Powerset Launches Piggybackipedia: Wikipedia Search Engine Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia's 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens when Google ranks all of your pages as #1?
Powerset Launches Piggybackipedia: Wikipedia Search EnginePosted by Kevin HeislerPowerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine that the metaphor-challenged mainstream media call the Google Killer.
Powerset Applications Currently, Powerset has released two applications: Powermouse and a beta of its search engine. Powerset doesn't know. Okay - maybe that's an unfair question for Powerset since the aptly-named Parvati Shallow only won Survivor...
