Google Killer?

Does Powerset make Sergey Bryn and Larry Page stay up at night? You’d think Powerset is the greatest thing since, well, Google, amid the hype about its still-in-development natural language search technology. The latest news about Powerset is a deal it has struck with Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center to license a portfolio of patents and technology, which have been under development for the past 30 years.

Who knows if Powerset will be successful in creating technology that produces better results than Google, and then whether it can convince the world it’s developed a better mouse trap but it has raised $12.5-million in venture capital. For people looking to use a search engine other than Google until Powerset launches, check out Read Write/Web’s list of the top 100 alternative search engines.

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Written by Mark Evans on February 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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