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The Search for Meaning
http://allantyoung.com/ 2008/ 09/ 28/ the-search-for-meaning/The Web is changing. The current Web is designed to allow computers to retrieve and deliver documents from other computers for the end user to view, read, and interpret. As anyone who has used Google’s (GOOG), Yahoo’s (YHOO) and Microsoft’s (MSFT) search engines can attest, sometimes the retrieval of desired documents and information is accurate and sometimes it is way off base.
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Microsoft Live Search Gets Semantic Query Processing
http://www.accuracast.com/ search-daily-news/ seo-7471/ microsoft-live-search-ge…Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year.
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Semantics + Google = SemantiFind
http://www.code4dotnet.com/ ?p=1629SemantiFind is a newly launched semantic search tool which made its debut at the recent DEMO conference. Unlike other semantic search engines such as Hakia and the recently acquired Powerset, SemantiFind isn’t looking to create a whole new search engine from scratch.
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Live Search: Powerset Integration Already Going Live
http://www.code4dotnet.com/ ?p=1623Microsoft only acquired the semantic search engine Powerset a little more than a month ago, but today, the Powerset team announced the first integration of its search technology into Microsoft’s Live Search. Specifically, Live Search will now show better instant answers for queries like “San Francisco weather” and return better results based on Freebase and Wikipedia articles.
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Powerset Finds Its Way Into Live Search
http://www.webpronews.com/ topnews/ 2008/ 09/ 17/ powerset-finds-its-way-into-li…Powerset, a search engine, which was once touted as a "Google Killer", and was sold to Microsoft for $100 million a couple months ago, is now being integrated into Microsoft's Live Search results (at least to a limited extent). read more
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Microsoft Begins To Integrate Powerset Into Live Search
http://pulse2.com/ 2008/ 09/ 17/ microsoft-begins-to-integrate-powerset-into-liv…Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) acquired Powerset for a rumored $100 million on July 1st. Since then Microsoft and Powerset have been working away to integrate search technologies into Live Search. Some of the integration projects include Freebase Answers, improved captions for Wikipedia results on Live Search, and related searches.
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Powerset, The Neutered Version
http://www.techcrunch.com/ 2008/ 09/ 17/ powerset-the-neutered-version/Microsoft promises that this is just the beginning of the integration with the recently acquired Powerset, but incorporating better Wikipedia clips into Live Search is a far cry from the original promise of the next generation search startup: true natural language search.
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Powerset Adds Key Features to Microsoft Live Search
http://mashable.com/ 2008/ 09/ 17/ live-search-powerset/In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially bound. Forward to today, and we see Powerset deliver a short memo noting that it has pieced together some improvements to Microsoft’s Live Search service, making its parent extra smart relative to its standard self.
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Microsoft Live Search Begins Powerset Integration
http://www.sitepoint.com/ blogs/ 2008/ 09/ 18/ microsoft-live-search-begins-powe…Frederic Lardinois over at ReadWriteWeb noticed that Microsoft has already begun to integrate functionality from the Powerset search engine it acquired just over a month ago for a rumored price of $100 million. A post at the Powerset blog details which Powerset features have been added into Live.
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Powerset Adds Key Features to Microsoft Live Search
http://softratty.com/ article/ 7d84b73387c7b68bacebeab26f872293In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially bound. Forward to today, and we see Powerset deliver a short memo noting that it has pieced together some improvements to Microsoft’s Live Search service, making its parent extra smart relative to its standard self.
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