Microsoft’s made it official: Powerset is now under its control.
Word of the acquisition first surfaced last week. Today, Microsoft confirms the San Francisco natural language search company will become part of its “Search Relevance team.” The announcement at Microsoft’s Live Search blog seems to imply that most, if not all, of the Powerset […]

Having failed to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft has been busy spending money, with news that they’ve acquired natural language search company Powerset for $100 million.
Powerset sort-of launched in May, with a smart search service that only indexed Wikipedia and Freebase entries. In use, Powerset is like the original Ask Jeeves on speed, focusing on questions as […]

Natural language search engine Powerset has soft-launched with a search engine that so far indexes Wikipedia and Freebase.
Michael over at TechCrunch loves the service but rightly notes “There is no way to look at Powerset today and determine if it can be as disruptive to search as Google was when it launched almost a decade […]