Microsoft To Buy Online Search Company Powerset
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/01/microsoft_buys_powerset">The Register</a>, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/02/interview-with-barney-pell-and-ramez-naam-about-microsoft%e2%80%99s-powerset-acquisition-integration-to-begin-this-year">TechCrunch</a>
Online searches could take on greater meaning with Microsoft's planned acquisition of Powerset, whose natural language-based technologies strive to understand the meaning and intent behind keywords used for indexing and searching."Problems exist because search engines today primarily match words in a search to words on a webpage," blogged Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella, using "cancer" as an example of a search for either a disease or a horoscope. "We can solve these problems by working to understand the intent behind each search and the concepts and meaning embedded in a webpage."
While rumored to be spending around $100 million, Microsoft has not disclosed how much it will pay for Powerset, a San Francisco-based startup whose semantic search engine designed for Wikipedia debuted last month. The company will become part of Microsoft's Search Relevance team.The Register, TechCrunch
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