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Title: Building a Better Search Engine - Michael Reisman, Technology Review Post by: Mark David on August 06, 2007, 02:29:35 PM Building a Better Search Engine - Michael Reisman, Technology Review
Powerset, Inc., based in San Francisco, is on the verge of offering an innovative natural-language search engine, based on linguistic research at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The engine does more than merely accept queries asked in the form of a question. The company claims that the engine finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages. "Powerset extracts deep concepts and relationships from the texts, and the users query and match them efficiently to deliver a better search," Powerset CEO Barney Pell says. Read More.. (http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19109/?a=f) |