by Frank

At ISWC07, Barney Pell gave one of the keynote talks, and he spoke about his new company PowerSet, which uses a mixture of natural language analysis and symbolic reasoning to improve over “Google-style” search.

In a rather significant development, recent news has it that Microsoft just bought Powerset for some $100m. That’s significant because it means that Microsoft (who is known to want to expand/improve their search business) is apparently taking semantics seriously enough to spend a bit on it.


The piece at http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-to-buy-semantic-search-engine-powerset-for-100m-plus/ has a rather good write-up on the different choices that Google and Microsoft are making on this (and of course, don’t forget that Yahoo! has announced to move into semantic search as well).

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