Powerset, a new Internet search engine company, has launched a proof-of-concept salvo in the search engine war — a natural language processing engine that attempts to understand the meaning behind a search phrase and the text it’s searching against. Instead of returning a long list of results that simply contain the key words a user enters, Powerset attempts to unlock the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. Understanding that meaning is a difficult task.
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New Powerset Search Tech Gets Your Drift
Posted by: Chris Maxcer May 12, 2008 11:41 AMPowerset, a new Internet search engine company, has launched a proof-of-concept salvo in the search engine war — a natural language processing engine that attempts to understand the meaning behind a search phrase and the text it’s searching against. Instead of returning a long list of results that simply contain the key words a user enters, Powerset attempts to unlock the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. Understanding that meaning is a difficult task.