Microsoft buys semantic search engine, Powerset
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Microsoft recently purchased the Powerset, a search engine company based in Silicon Valley that can processes natural-language questions and produces a list of answers based on Wikipedia articles. After their recent attempts to acquire Yahoo’s search engine, perhaps it’s trying to use this technology to upgrade Live.com










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