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engine - 7:57 am on Jul 2, 2008 (gmt 0)
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Web site Venture Beat estimated that Microsoft acquired San Francisco-based Powerset for $100 million. Instead of merely searching for keywords on a page, as Google does, Powerset's technology can take apart and "understand" entire sentences, as well as the meaning of individual words. Earlier Story Previous threads on Powerset [url=http://www.webmasterworld.com/alternative_search_engines/3248665.htm]PowerSet Picks Off Slew of Yahoo Search Employees [webmasterworld.com] powerset.com - natural language search engine [webmasterworld.com] Added other links for completeness [edited by: engine at 11:31 am (utc) on July 2, 2008]
Microsoft Acquires Semantic Search Engine, Powerset [forbes.com] Microsoft announced that it will acquire Powerset, a so-called "semantic" search engine that claims it can produce more relevant search results than Google by better reading and "understanding" search queries and Web pages.
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