Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus

Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by fallentimes on Thursday June 26, 2008 @05:35PM (#229135)

Don't worry Live search will still be awful. Congrats to the Powerset team though.

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by mikeryan on Thursday June 26, 2008 @07:48PM (#229259)

Congrats for what?

Getting bought before they could completely implode on themselves?

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by tx on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:53PM (#229297)

What's with the sarcasm? At least they shot at something not pathetically trivial, like sending "up to" 400 bytes of text to random people. Or selling a few percent of message board technology to the same restless company ran by an idiot for $250M.

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by jonknee on Thursday June 26, 2008 @07:58PM (#229261)

I'm assuming congrats for the $100m. That's something to be proud of.

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by KirinDave on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:41PM (#229289)

Implode?

You must have one killer insider source to make claims like this despite the fact that the blogosphere is abuzz with unconfirmed reports of acquisition!

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