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| Nov 17, 2009 | Just The Facts: Factery Labs Trims The Web Down To The Important Bits | When you go to search the web, is it because you want to read through a lengthy article related to a subject, or do you just want the facts that answer your question? Factery Labs, a new service that’s launching this morning, is hoping it’s... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Siri partners with True Knowledge to enhance its "personal assistant" iPhone app | Artificial intelligence company Siri has struck a deal with natural-language question answering platform True Knowledge to power direct questioning in its upcoming “next-generation personal assistant” app for iPhone.
Cambridge-based True Kn... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | PR spin in the valley: Sometimes it doesn’t have to be that complicated | When it comes to PR strategy for launching companies, everyone’s got advice.
Some think there’s some sort of magic to it. A story in the New York Times today about how public relations is done in Silicon Valley perpetuates that idea that yo... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Search and Rescue: 6 Approaches to Semantic Data Collection | It’s been more than ten years since Tim Berners-Lee first spoke about the semantic web and computers indexing all web-based data. He said, “The day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talk... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends | Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it’s incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don’t get it.
This is precisely the reason why Canadian technologist Bruc... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| Mar 8, 2009 | Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an electronic brain | Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.
Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years of working in stea... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Could Wikipedia’s Future Be as a Development Platform? | Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held for approval on many pages, a step sure to slow contributions even furt... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Virgance: Harnessing The Community To Save The World (Business Plan Included) | Virgance, a new startup headed by Powerset co-founder Steve Newcomb, is looking to change the world – and make some money doing it. The company, which features the tagline ‘Activism 2.0’, has announced that it has closed a round of seed fun... |
| Dec 26, 2008 | Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies | In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Bern... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 | In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008.
This is the first in a series of posts we’ll publish over December, listing our choices for the top web prod... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch – One Year Later | In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. 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 pa... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Do Semantic Search Companies Need a Semantic Map? It’s All Semantics… | 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 othe... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | Roundup: Palin’s email hacked, Google and G.E. team up, stocks take a dive | Wall Street’s crisis deepens — Panic in financial markets spread as Dow drops 4 percent, or 449 points. investors cash out of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. [photo: SFGate.com]
Carnage among tech stocks — Which of your favorites took a b... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | Cognition Announces “World’s Largest Semantic Map” | Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what it claims is “the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language.” We ... |
| Sep 3, 2008 | Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More | Yahoo has highlighted a few more implementations of BOSS, the search API it launched in early July that allows third party websites to incorporate Yahoo search functionality seamlessly into their sites.
This is the second time Yahoo has sho... |
| Aug 7, 2008 | YouNoodle’s startup predictor wants to tell you how much your company is worth | YouNoodle, an online community and website for entrepreneurs, just unveiled a feature that’s certain to attract (and anger?) plenty of curious users — a “startup predictor” that scores early-stage companies’ promise and feasibility, and eve... |
| Jul 29, 2008 | True Knowledge gets second round from original backers | Well, maybe I was wrong. Instead of True Knowledge bagging a large amount of VC funding as I thought, it’s gone back to its existing investors Octopus Ventures and some angels to secure $4m further funding. However, it may be it just that i... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | LOUD3R Offers a BETT3R Way To Discover News | Filtering through the noise to find news on discovery sites can be daunting. Social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit have been doing very well, and memetrackers, like Techmeme, are also growing in popularity. The newest trend in disco... |
| Jul 7, 2008 | Metaweb’s Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia | Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another – semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input into the web with machine learning. The semantically e... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form | The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on ... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | Interview With Barney Pell and Ramez Naam About Microsoft’s Powerset Acquisition: Integration By End Of Year | I spoke with Powerset cofounder/CEO Barney Pell and Microsoft’s Live Search General Program Manager Ramez Naam shortly after Microsoft’s announcement of their acquisition of Powerset earlier today.
Microsoft intends to use Powerset’s natura... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | Microsoft confirms it's buying semantic search provider Powerset | A few weeks ago, Microsoft denied it would be making any big purchases in the wake of its failed "hybrid" bid for Yahoo's search business. That's assuming that Powerset isn't a big purchase...and it very well might be.
Confirming ... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Microsoft Bets On Natural Language Search To Battle Google | Techcrunch confirms that Microsoft has announced that they have acquired natural language search engine Powerset for a sum rumored to be around $100M. The acquisition is another key step in Microsofts efforts to gain market share in the onl... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Microsoft buys Powerset, gets foot in semantic search door | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 1, 2008 | Ok, Now It's Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset | Microsoft will announce today that they have acquired San Francisco based semantic search engine Powerset. The acquisition price is not being disclosed, but our understanding from sources close to the deal is that the previously rumored $10... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Confirmed: Microsoft buys search startup Powerset | Powerset, a search startup whose technology attempts to understand the full meaning of phrases — not just keywords, as Google does — has officially sold to Microsoft, the two companies announced today.
While terms are not being disclosed, V... |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. | VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.
Our sources have been saying this deal ... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Evri Beta Launches: Search Less – Understand More | Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calli... |
| Jun 19, 2008 | VCs price True Knowledge at £20m pre-money. Is this the UK's Powerset? | It’s fairly rare to find VCs clamouring over a startup, virtually throwing term sheets folded into paper aeroplanes through any open window they can find, but this appears to be the situation surrounding UK search company True Knowledge, wh... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Powerset Unveils iPhone-Optimized Wikipedia Search | Powerset, the natural language search engine that partially launched in May, has released a mobile version of their site that allows users to quickly search Wikipedia from their iPhone.
Since the release of the iPhone a number of sites incl... |
| Jun 16, 2008 | 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google | My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search – i.e. what one does after the basic search. Unfortunately, none of th... |
| May 29, 2008 | Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality | For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search.
Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest
to all of us, particularly one that takes advantage of long-awaited and much-hyped semantic tech... |
| May 21, 2008 | Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia | Wikipedia, which turned 7 this year, is a source of information for 683 million visitors every year. A poster child for user-generated content, Wikipedia has grown from its first year in which just 12 articles were created to over 10 millio... |
| May 14, 2008 | Stealth search company Blekko gets $3M | Blekko, a stealth search company started by Topix co-founder Rich Skrenta, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Little is known about the company, and right now its website contains nothing more than ... |
| May 13, 2008 | Powerset previews search engine seen as threat to Google, Yahoo | In a newly-opened online showcase, search engine specialist Powerset is now previewing a contextual search engine seen by some as a possible threat to Google, Yahoo and other major players through its support for "conversational phrasi... |
| May 13, 2008 | Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches | According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It’s not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it’s just that there is so much information out ther... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset opens to everyone — now, what’s next? | Today, natural language search engine Powerset is finally opening its doors to everyone, as well as unveiling a set of tools that have previously been seen by only a handful of people. This marks the end of a long phase for Powerset — since... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset vs. Google: The Completely Premature Head-to-Head | As our network blog AltSearchEngines reported this morning, the long-awaited and much hyped natural language processing search engine Powerset launched this morning. Kind of. For now, the search service only uses Wikipedia and Freebase as s... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset has a 'secret' video | The much talked-about Powerset (at least in Silicon Valley circles),which is trying to crack the nut of natural language search, has been looked at more closely by TechCrunch. But did anyone notice the promotional video about it which few h... |
| May 11, 2008 | Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience | Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience – effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipe... |
| May 10, 2008 | Powerset's Dilemma: Go For It, Or Sell | San Francisco based search startup Powerset will be launching shortly. For now, Powerset will query only Wikipedia and Freebase. But as I said when the product was demo’d to me a few weeks ago, it is compelling nonetheless: “When I tested t... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Viewzi provides a window to the multi-view future of search | Quietly launching into beta this week, Viewzi hasn’t yet kicked up much fanfare. Tucked well away from Silicon Valley in Dallas, Tex., where it was started just over a year ago by a pair of former Broadcast.com execs, it’s a small search st... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | Hakia narrows search results by vertical, starting with healthcare | Semantic search engine Hakia is following up its recent licensing news with a new scheme to attract users: Results that are narrowed according to the vertical you’re searching, starting with healthcare.
When you search on a health-related s... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | Powerset: Don’t call us a search engine | It appears 2008 might well be shaping up to be the year that semantic technology kicks off: Semantic search engine Hakia has begun licensing its technology, the intelligent organizer Twine is readying for launch, and now natural language se... |
| Apr 5, 2008 | Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks | San Francisco based Powerset will be publicly launching a long-awaited beta version of the service in the coming weeks, the company told me yesterday. They are working on a new kind of search engine that will understand natural language sea... |
| Mar 18, 2008 | Hakia begins licensing out semantic search technology | Semantic search engine Hakia has started to license its technology to other startups, starting with RiverGlass, a company that digs through and summarizes information on behalf of government agencies.
Semantic search technology seeks to und... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Semantic Web: Where Are The Meaning-Enabled Authoring Tools? | By Nitin Karandikar Much has been written recently about the concepts, approaches and applications of the Semantic Web. But there’s something missing. In terms of understanding, finding and displaying content, there is no doubt that the Sem... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Roundup of action: Opus Select, Boobik, Branson’s space warming & more | 1. Yandex, Russian search engine, grows quickly
2. Opus launches hedge fund in New York
3. Matrix goes to China
4. Dogster takes $400,000 in financing
5. Semantic search engine Powerset raises $2M
6. Pubmatic, draw ads from all networks
7. ... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Find Something That Is "X" And Has "Y" With Circos | Keyword search gets you pretty far when looking for pure information, but doesn’t help much on more qualitative searches like trying to find the hippest restaurant in SOHO. Searches like the latter rely on the opinions of people, not webmas... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Deconstructing Real Google Searches: Why Powerset Matters | This is a guest post by Nitin Karandikar, author of the Software Abstractions blog.
Recently I was looking at the log files for my blog, as I regularly do, and I was
suddenly struck by the variety of search queries in Google from which user... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | Knol: Good Attempt at Herding Knowledge Cats | After Peter Drucker told us in 1966 that we were becoming a knowledge economy, it was inevitable that big companies would spend lots of money on complex knowledge management systems. Most of those investment had very poor returns, because t... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | Google's Norvig Is Down On Natural Language Search | Don’t expect to see natural-language search at Google anytime soon. Despite the buzz of startups like Powerset and, to a lesser degree, true knowledge, Google’s head of research Peter Norvig pooh-poohs the notion that people are clamoring t... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch | One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts t... |
| Nov 10, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 5-9 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Note: If you would like to spon... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | True Knowledge Launches Natural Language Search Engine | Cambridge, UK-based True Knowledge released its natural language search engine into private beta yesterday (a story broken by TechCrunchUK).
Like the much-anticipated Powerset, the company aims to give appropriate answers to natural languag... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | TrueKnowledge Demos Its Semantic Search Engine | Venture funded UK semantic search engine TrueKnowledge is unveiling a demo of its private beta today and looks like an interesting site to watch. One cannot help but think of the still-unlaunched Powerset, but it’s also reminiscent of the v... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Powerset Looking for a New CEO | Natural-language search startup Powerset is going through some growing pains. Barney Pell is stepping down from the CEO spot. He will now become the CTO, and he and Powerset’s board will conduct a search for a new CEO. Powerset’s other foun... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Powerset, the hyped search engine company, sees shakeup | updated
Powerset, the “natural language” search engine company saying it wants to take on Google, has seen a shake up in its management.
The San Francisco company received substantial hype when it emerged last year saying it had found a way... |
| Oct 19, 2007 | The New Era of Semantic Apps | I’m here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O’Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine – see our review here). The pan... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Radar’s Twine: A semantic complement to Google | More than a year of secrecy spawned rumors about Radar Networks. The most popular: It’s a “Google killer.”
Tomorrow morning, San Francisco’s Radar will surprise a few people by launching Twine, a tool for collecting and organizing informati... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Surf Canyon lets you refine results within Google | Although developmental search services like Powerset and Hakia may one day rule the search market, for the moment, Google and Yahoo still dominate.
Surf Canyon is a new service that wants you to use it along with Google or Yahoo, offering u... |
| Sep 21, 2007 | PARC opens incubator, may change plodding reputation? | The Palo Alto Research Center, the famed Silicon Valley research institution that popularized things like the computer mouse to the laser printer, has decided to open its doors to more aggressively nurture entrepreneurs.
PARC, founded by Xe... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | First Five Present at TechCrunch40 | With additional writing by Josh Catone.
This morning saw the first five startups at the TechCrunch40 event hit the floor and presented to journalists, investors, and early adopters. The first session focused on search startups. It’s interes... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Powerset Natural Language Search Engine to Dethrone Google? | A new Web search provider has started allowing select users to try it out. Powerset, not due to open its doors until September, let a handful of people into its Powerset Labs community to try out its gimmick that just may give it an edge ov... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | New companies launch: Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Faroo & more | Ten companies presented during today’s morning portion of Techcrunch40 conference in San Francisco. If we were able to have stock in these companies, here’s how we’d rank them: CastTV, Cubic Telecom, Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Powerset, ... |
| Sep 3, 2007 | Powerset Parses Miss South Carolina | In a less than shining moment, Caitlin Upton, the 18 year old Miss South Carolina Teen, answered a fairly simple pagent question with a nonsensical answer:
Q: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a ... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | Powerset Releases Growth Models To Public | New natural language search engine Powerset, still in pre-launch stealth mode, has had a ridiculous amount of press this year. And while some have said there is too much hype around this company (even me), you have to give them some credit.... |
| Jul 19, 2007 | Search Agents: Will Startups or MIT Win Out? | Written by Guest Writer Steve Spalding
The idea of “Search” is a powerful concept. Whether it’s guide based like Mahalo, algorithmically powered like Google or driven by something as close to home as natural
language, like Powerset. Where t... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Roundup: Dual-mode Blackberry, VCs go late, Pyramid 2.0 continued, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Blackberry 8820 announced — It is the first BlackBerry that is dual-mode, letting you use both cellular networks (EDGE/GPRS/GSM) and WiFi. More at ZDNet. This is probably enough for BlackBerry to stave off the iPho... |
| Jul 6, 2007 | So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next? | What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires:
Serial entrepreneurs – keep doing the same
Dreamers – expand their horizons
Mid... |
| Jun 22, 2007 | An update on Powerset, the natural language search engine | Powerset is a quixotic search engine company here in San Francisco that has convinced itself it can take on Google.
While Powerset gears up to release its search engine publicly later this year, it hopes to nurture an army of 50,0000 early ... |
| Jun 15, 2007 | Powerset To Launch Social Network Around Search Engine | When Powerset announced plans to launch a new service called Powerlabs a week ago, it looked to be another sand box area for product previews, like those created by Microsoft, Google and others.But today Steve Newcomb, COO of Powerset, reve... |
| Jun 11, 2007 | First Public View Of Powerset Results | Powerset is being extremely careful about showing the public how their search engine works until they are ready. After some initial hype (see our posts here, here and here), the company pretty much shut its doors to the press. I did finally... |
| May 29, 2007 | Semantic Search: An Antidote for Poor Relevancy | By Dr. Riza C. Berkan, Founder & CEO, hakia.com
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by the CEO of Hakia, Dr Riza C. Berkan. I want to stress that this post is NOT an advertorial – in fact I made it a condition of publication that the po... |
| May 7, 2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| Mar 23, 2007 | Hakia Takes On Google With Semantic Technologies | This
week I spoke to Hakia founder and CEO Dr. Riza C. Berkan and COO Melek
Pulatkonak. Hakia is one of the more promising Alt Search Engines
around, with a focus on natural
language processing methods to try and deliver ‘meaningful’ search... |
| Mar 20, 2007 | Roundup: Cognition’s search, Jaxtr, TrustedID, AppleTV, Palm’s sale | The latest action:
Cognition launches new search engine company — Cognition, of Santa Monica, Calif., is yet another company trying to understanding the meaning of words, to offer a better a search engine. But it looks somewhat quirky. It o... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Former Shopping.com CEO Ciporin starts Peer39, new “natural language” ad start-up | (Updated after talking with the company and confirming the investment)
Peer39, a secretive online ad marketplace start-up in New York boasting that it will boost conversion rates “dramatically,” has raised $3 million from New York-based Daw... |
| Feb 8, 2007 | Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google | Powerset, a San Francisco search engine company, will announce Friday it has won exclusive rights to significant search engine technology it says may help propel it past Google.
The technology, developed at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) ... |
| Jan 31, 2007 | TextDigger, Hakia say they can improve search | TextDigger is the latest company seeking that Holy Grail: Improving on Google’s results by understanding the sense of the words you’re looking for.
TextDigger’s search engine is called Digger, and it just launched at the DEMO conference.
Fi... |
| Jan 2, 2007 | Roundup: All Hail Google, WiFi in cars, Wallop walloped, Ahnold’s funding | Round-up of the latest action in Silicon Valley:
It’s all about Google — Notable post by Rich Skrenta about how Google is becoming ever more important. Having become the “start page” for the Web, Google makes $90 to $120 for every thousand ... |
| 2007 | The Race to Beat Google | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus
In
an article in the January 1st 2007 issue of NYTimes, reporter Miguel Helft writes
about the race in Silicon Valley to beat Google. Certainly the future of search has been
much talked ... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | The “FF class” of stock, for founders who want cash early | (Updated with more details on how FF works)
A form venture capital funding in Silicon Valley is getting increased interest from founders of start-ups.
It is called the “FF class” of stock, for founders who want to cash out a small percentag... |
| Dec 12, 2006 | Search 2.0 – What’s Next? | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard
MacManus
You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo,
Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half
of the 199... |
| Nov 6, 2006 | Powerset gets $12.5M at whopper valuation, to go after search holy grail | See our story here.
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data technologies a... |
| Nov 5, 2006 | Powerset gets $12.5M at whopper valuation, to go after search holy grail | Powerset, the Palo Alto search engine that wants do Google one better by understanding the phrases you are searching for, has raised $12.5 million in a first round of venture capital.
The company is controversial because it claims it can do... |
| Oct 4, 2006 | More on Powerset, the secretive search engine | (Update: See our subsequent funding story here)
We promised to bring you more on Powerset, that secretive company that wants to better Google with a new kind of search.
Powerset is going after the holy grail. It is called “natural language”... |
| Oct 2, 2006 | Bold start-up, Powerset, raises $2M, maybe more, to take on Google | See story here.
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data technologies and s... |
| Oct 2, 2006 | Bold start-up, Powerset, about to raise $10M to take on Google | Updated
We’ve been hearing about a new Palo Alto start-up called Powerset, which says its search technology is better than Google’s.
The start-up, led by artificial intelligence and natural language expert, Barney Pell, has been pitching it... |
