Microsoft, the software giant flush with billions of dollars, has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset. The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million. Powerset, of San Francisco, has developed a technology that attempts to understand the full meanings of phrases you type in while searching.
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Damn.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Did any of you ever actually use it in our daily searches? We certainly heard about it a lot. But it seems like a classic, “Let’s get acquired!” scam.