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Can Powerset Save Microsoft Search?

Started by Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

Having failed to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft has been busy spending money, with news that they’ve acquired natural language search company Powerset for $100 million.

Powerset sort-of launched in May, with a smart search service that only indexed Wikipedia and Freebase ... Continue reading »

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  • Its important that search applications emphasize the myriad subtleties in information classification to cater to different user characteristics. When these differences power search engines, we’ll get closer to perfect representation. Take a look at http://www.topodia.com = interesting approach
  • Topodia saves you clicking through dozens of unwanted Google links looking for results.

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