nerdd.net (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they're progressing. What's changed over the past year and what are these companies working on now? At the time of the acquisition, Powerset said that it needed a bigger partner [...]
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Opening AI panel: Ben Goertzel , Novamente, Singularity Institute Peter Norvig , Director of Research at Google Steve Omohundro , Self-Aware Systems Barney Pell , Founder of Powerset, Strategist at Microsoft Peter Novrig, when asked how he would advise Obama if he were the CTO, responded, "Believe in reality." This got a great reaction from the audience. Ben Goertzel notes that, instead of bailing...
WarCry Network (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Following up on Kalia's Issue 13 interview , now we have the New Powerset video right after the click!
Port 25 (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
It is just two months since Microsoft finalized the acquisition of Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset's goals are to "change the way humans interact with computers through language "- improving search by indexing Web pages based on the meaning expressed in them rather than just the literal words. Collaboration between the Powerset team and their new colleagues...
MSN Search Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The Live Search Powerset team will be presenting next week at Web 3.0 in Santa Clara on October 16-17. Scott Prevost, Powerset general manager, is providing Friday's keynote on The Road to Semantic Search . And I'm hosting a roundtable discussion on Thursday with Alitora, Cerebra, Metaweb, and Thompson Reuters called Semantic Startup 101 - Successes, challenges, and strategic decisions . For details,...
comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
just something stupid my office mates got started.....that really roared to life on a slow day. Well in general, what would you rather have as your main technique. A projectile based powerset - Cyclops, Iceman, Gambit, the majority of the DB gang, etc or A "punch, kick, fight" powerset -...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
For this week’s Perspectives show I spoke with Scott Prevost, general manager and product director for Powerset, the semantic search engine that was recently acquired by Microsoft, and that can currently be seen in action working with the combined contents of Wikipedia and Freebase. In our interview, Scott discusses the natural language engine — 30 years [...]
Tonetek Blog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
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. They have already started [...]
FoundRead (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Five months ago I became a founder for the first time. I am not a total novice to the Valley; I’ve been fortunate to work with and befriend some very smart (and now influential) people from companies like Google and Powerset. But I am also a Midwesterner who migrated to the Valley in the late [...]
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
This week we reported that Cognition had announced "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language." In our interview with Cognition CEO Scott Janus, we asked him to compare Cognition's technologies to those of other semantic search companies Hakia and Powerset. Janus pointed to their large Semantic Map as the main differentiator. Indeed he told us that semantic search companies...
Search Engine Watch (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Link Marketing: What Google Can Teach You; 5 Million Users Hate the New Facebook? No Problem; Powerset's First Integrations with Live Search; and more.
Cartoon Barry Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Daily Search Coverage: Google Maps adds roads to Israel. Google patent shows us more SEO hints. Google and Yahoo to proceed with search ad deal soon. Live adds Powerset features. Google makes site stats logo optional. Yahoo tests new home page design. Yahoo redoes the Search Monkey. Search in pictures features Marissa Mayer's birthday. Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day everyone! Search Engine Roundtable...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
We've briefly seen search tool Powerset in action at SES just a month ago. They were acquired by Microsoft around that time and are already being integrated into search results. The Powerset blog explains some of the feature offerings: Freebase...
Online Marketing News (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Google and eBay top vistor and click lists, while Microsoft discusses Powerset.
The Register (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Google-bashing semantics Microsoft yesterday revealed how it has begun integrating Powerset’s semantic internet search technology into its own Live Search product.…
