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  • The Microsoft revolving door: Former Powerset CEO has left the building

    Microsoft acquired natural-language search vendor Powerset in 2008. On September 5, Powerset's CEO left Microsoft to become an angel investor.

    Blog posts | September 6, 2011 8:04pm PDT

  • Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions)

     Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of---it won't be fully deployed until June 3---but questions already abound. Here's a look at the top 10 questions surrounding Bing, Microsoft's so-called...

    Blog posts | May 28, 2009 10:04am PDT

  • Powerset is making Microsoft Live Search better...

    OK, I admit it. I doubted. But Powerset is already bringing value to Microsoft Live Search results. Frederic Lardinois over on Read/WriteWeb picks up on a post to the Powerset blog, and takes a...

    Blog posts | September 17, 2008 11:28am PDT

  • Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance

    Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Semantic Web startup Powerset released figures from a small survey of student use of Wikipedia. As I explore here, the results certainly do suggest that...

    Blog posts | September 16, 2008 2:14am PDT

  • Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

    San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors....

    Blog posts | September 4, 2008 12:56pm PDT

  • Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

    Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still...

    Blog posts | July 1, 2008 6:24pm PDT

  • Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught

    Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its...

    Blog posts | July 1, 2008 2:23pm PDT

  • Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search

    The rumors accumulating over the past few months were true: Microsoft has purchased natural-language search vendor Powerset for an undisclosed amount.

    Blog posts | July 1, 2008 11:59am PDT

  • Powerset's search: Does it deliver?

    Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on...

    Blog posts | May 12, 2008 7:08am PDT

  • Taking Powerset for a spin

    Powerset has released its natural language search. Here's tour.

  • Powerset shows semantic search solution

    Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new...

    Blog posts | May 12, 2008 6:38am PDT

  • The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine

    Danny Hillis (Metaweb), Barney Pell (Powerset) and Nova Spivack (Radar Networks) shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that...

    Blog posts | October 19, 2007 5:27pm PDT

  • Radar Networks weaves semantic Twine

    Radar Networks has finally taken the wraps of its stealthy semantic Web platform. I met with company CEO Nova Spivack earlier this week to get the lowdown on Twine, the first application of the...

    Blog posts | October 18, 2007 9:38pm PDT

Additional Results

  • The Microsoft revolving door: Former Powerset CEO has left the building

    Microsoft acquired natural-language search vendor Powerset in 2008. On September 5, Powerset's CEO left Microsoft to become an angel investor.

    Blog posts | September 6, 2011 8:04pm PDT

  • Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions)

     Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of---it won't be fully deployed until June 3---but questions already abound. Here's a look at the top 10 questions surrounding Bing, Microsoft's so-called...

    Blog posts | May 28, 2009 10:04am PDT

  • Powerset is making Microsoft Live Search better...

    OK, I admit it. I doubted. But Powerset is already bringing value to Microsoft Live Search results. Frederic Lardinois over on Read/WriteWeb picks up on a post to the Powerset blog, and takes a...

    Blog posts | September 17, 2008 11:28am PDT

  • Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance

    Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Semantic Web startup Powerset released figures from a small survey of student use of Wikipedia. As I explore here, the results certainly do suggest that...

    Blog posts | September 16, 2008 2:14am PDT

  • Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

    San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors....

    Blog posts | September 4, 2008 12:56pm PDT

  • MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search

    The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities....

    Blog posts | July 4, 2008 12:44pm PDT

  • Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

    Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still...

    Blog posts | July 1, 2008 6:24pm PDT

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