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

Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by naveenj82 on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:53AM (#229463)

Is Powerset anything more than a proof of concept? Not one of the results for my search "which team has the most NBA championship wins?" had anything about the Boston celtics. MSFT has major challenges ahead to successfully apply Powerset over the entire www.

On the plus side, this could one day answer the question "What's Live really better than Google at?"

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by tobys on Friday June 27, 2008 @02:09AM (#229511)

Not sure why you said none of the results for your search had anything about the Celtics. The third result's snippet basically answers the query - "The Boston Celtics have won the most championships, with 16 NBA Finals wins"

screenshot http://img.skitch.com/20080627-xwau72gij1yse6t6fy1rp3us3j.pn...

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by naveenj82 on Friday June 27, 2008 @03:58AM (#229578)

You're right.. think i just scanned the page titles. and someone needs to update that article with '17' finals wins.

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