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Powerset Launches “Understanding Engine” For Wikipedia Content

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Powerset Launches “Understanding Engine” For Wikipedia Content — After nearly two years in the making — and plenty of hype — Powerset has finally rolled out a “natural language” search engine. It’s not a Google killer.

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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language.

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Wikipedia for teaching and research

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Hot off the back of news that ‘Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool‘ comes the launch of semantic search enginge Powerset, whose ‘natural language search technology … has read 2.5 million Wikipedia pages and

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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like… Read the full story.

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Powerset Debuts With Search of Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Powerset is undoubtedly among the most ballyhooed startups in Silicon Valley. The company’s mission is as improbable as it is daring: just like like Google did a decade ago, Powerset wants to come up with a better way to search.

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Re: Ben Woods in Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Your link is broken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Woods_(football_player)

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Western pond turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

Western pond turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Western Pond Turtle, or Pacific Pond Turtle, (Actinemys marmorata) is a small to medium-sized turtle growing to approximately 20 cm in carapace length.

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Powerset Launches Semantic Wikipedia Search to Public

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

What is being unveiled is essentially a search engine based on top of Wikipedia. Allowing you to enter a topic, phrase or question, Powerset uses its semantic algorithm to dig through the keywords and come up with the best matches — or

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Wikipedia vs. Britannica

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

This might surprise you, but according to a very casual experiment to look up terms newer to the web. 2.0 world in several subscription-based resources vs. wikipedia, guess who wins?

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Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool

Posted in Wikipedia on May 12, 2008

By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as

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