Microsoft 's brute-force bid to boost its search business by acquiring Yahoo! may have been shuttered, but the software giant hasn't given up on challenging Google . Now, it may be trying a more ...

While Google and Yahoo focus on indexing Flash sites, Microsoft has other search plans up its sleeve. As the rumors have foretold, Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Powerset and plans to ...

My first thought when stepping into the Powerset offices: "Overfunded." The company, which aims to create a better search engine than Google, already has some of the search giant's trappings: fancy ...

Session one as follows, including our live notes. Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the ...

Start-up's search engine is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages, offering the promise of a smarter, more efficient search experience The public will get its first chance Monday to test a ...