Powerset launches!
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Powerset launches its supposedly “human lauguage” search engine. Basically it’s only searching Wikipedia at this point but the search experience is very AJAXed out and good.
I looked up “zedomax” and only thing I could find was Zedomax.com linked to the Hacker article at Wikipedia, which I inserted long time ago.
Powerset looks like great for searching Wikipedia, as Wikipedia’s default search engine sucks.
It may explode onto the mass once Powerset gets more into mainstream search engine market.
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by investment bank Allen & Co.
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Thanks for the post! You should try a screenshot of something that you might find more results for in Wikipedia — that will give you a more complete experience. Also, click through to some of the enhanced Wikipedia pages and try the Factz summary in the Article Outline.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Hi Mark,
Thanks for letting me know about the new features, I will try it out, and thanks for the comment math not working, it’s been fixed now.
Cheers~
Max
June 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
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