Is Powerset the Search Engine of Tomorrow?

Californian-based search engine company Powerset has announced that it has secured the rights to natural language search technology that it claims will enable it to surpass Google as the internet’s leading search engine.

Powerset Natural Language Search EngineThe new technology has taken Silicon Valley-based Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) over 30 years to develop.

Powerset hopes natural language searching will prove move popular than Google’s current approach, which involves listing the most popular pages which include the keywords in the search.

Natural language searches, on the other hand, have been developed to examine the relationship between the words in the search in an attempt to make computers “understand” and “process” language in a bid to improve results. …continue reading the story
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Wikiasari the New Search Engine from Wikipedia

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to launch a unique new search engine which he hopes will rival the likes of Google and Yahoo.

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The man who created possibly the world’s best-known online encyclopaedia, which allows users to update it themselves and thus contains a staggeringly wide and frequently-updated range of information, has teamed up with Amazon to create the Wikiasari (Japanese for ‘quick rummaging search’) project. …continue reading the story
called Wikiasari the New Search Engine from Wikipedia