Powerset Reinvents the Search and Discovery Experience for Wikipedia Articles Company's first public release goes beyond the search results page, adding value throughout the entire search process
Powerset Press Release, May 12, 2008
Excerpts from the release:
News Facts:
Powerset, a company pioneering natural language technology, today
announced the launch of its publicly available beta product that
reinvents how users search and discover information from
Wikipedia(TM).
Powerset's breakthrough natural language technology is based on
patents licensed from PARC (formerly Xerox PARC) and Powerset's
proprietary research. The technology, which can be applied to any
topic and any domain, reads and extracts meaning from every sentence
in Wikipedia.
This release is the first step in Powerset changing the way users
search and consume web content. Unlike traditional search engines,
which look for words, Powerset matches the meaning of the user's
query to the meaning of sentences...
Powerset's technology improves the entire search and discovery
experience by:
Allowing users to express themselves in the search box through
keywords, phrases, or simple questions.
Providing more accurate search results on the page, often
answering questions directly, and aggregating information from
across multiple articles.
Offering a better way to search, digest and navigate content on
Wikipedia quickly...
