Does Microsoft + Powerset Beat Google?

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by Anon84 • 18 years ago

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mpc2• 18 years ago

Anon842• 18 years ago

why not?

mpc2• 18 years ago

I haven't seen anything in Powerset that would augment Microsoft's search enough to make a significant impact on their "battle" with Google, never mind beating them.

Powerset only works on wikipedia, it's a cool application of NLP...but scaling it to a full "semantic" search engine for the entire web is an epic challenge. Is Powerset's search technology really better than Google's? I'm not too sure.

It's a good acquisition for msft, but Google is usually better when it comes to choosing startups to buy that are real winners. I honestly think that Google would have scooped them up sometime over the last 3 years if they really thought they were a threat. Just my hunch.

Stabback2• 18 years ago

Several reasons.

First - if Microsoft managed to somehow make a more powerful search with PowerSet then they are still lacking in reputation. Rep alone will get a large portion of Google users to stay with them.

Second - People in general don't like Microsoft. Sure they have some great products (don't knock Windows and Office, the world does run on them even though there are other great platforms/editors) but they have lost face due to poor support options and annoying aspects of the interface

Third - Google is not just a search engine.

That's just some of the reasons.

globalrev• 18 years ago

If it scales yes, why not?

If it doesnt, well no ldo.

How long would it take for Google to implement something similar?

Does Microsoft + Powerset Beat Google?

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