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 ...

Unlike the Googles or Yahoos of the world, Powerset “reads” the sites it crawls, parsing sentences for meaning with a lot of complicated algorithms. The end result is that Powerset allows you ...

For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. ... and so there is little need for proper ranking algorithms to sort the good from the bad results.

Powerset has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding and as Dan Farber notes will need more money if it's going to index the Web. Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has ...

Powerset faces the same challenge that Twine does or Hakia does, in that respect. Because it’s trying to create new ways of navigating the Internet, there’s no tried-and-true model to copy.

Powerset has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding and as Dan Farber notes will need more money if it's going to index the Web. Also see: Paul Miller: Powerset shows semantic search solution.

Powerset, a startup building a search engine that understands ideas rather than just words, has opened an online lab to tap into the brainpower of a limited number of humans.