Microsoft To Buy Semantic Search Engine Powerset
In yet another attempt to thwart Google, and add to its miniscule search market share, Microsoft has announced that it would be buying Powerset – a firm which specializes in interpreting the intent of people’s Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use.
Powerset’s natural language processing technology, licensed from PARC and developed further, would read a sentence to extract its meaning and build a semantic index of facts based on the structure of the sentence, thus allowing search using conversational speech instead of just keywords.
Known as semantic search, this search method has fascinated researchers for decades but proved extremely difficult to commercialize.
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