Microsoft buys Powerset - Is Ballmer happy NOW?
After failing acquire (and then merger) Yahoo for several months, Microsoft is now buying new generation search engine Powerset.com. Many believes, Powerset.com can replace Google as a search engine as they are developing more intelligent form of web search called semantic search. This technology not only indexes web pages, but applies additional algorithms to parse each information piece and extract its possible meaning to yield more relevant search results than what we are seeing today.
Currently Google uses Web 2.0 technology on the other hand Powerset.com is based Web 3.0, is widely considered to become the next evolution of the Internet. Compared to today’s Internet or even Web 2.0 applications, the semantic web is expected to become much more intelligent and is all about all about connecting information from various sources and creating meaningful relations between different pieces of online information.
Acquiring conditions are not disclosed yet. But it’s confirmed that the Powerset team will keep its offices in San Francisco and Microsoft said that it is interested in hiring more search engineers in San Francisco.
Source : Microsoft buys semantic search startup Powerset
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