Powerset - Unveils Test Version of Google-killer

www.powerset.com/ When POWESET, a widely hyped new search engine, launches today, few people are going to view it as a real competitor to Google. It will try to demonstrate the potency of its natural-language search technology by focusing on Wikipedia and Freebase, an open database. Unlike Google, which indexes the world's Web sites at lightning speed by doing a quick and dirty analysis of key characteristics, Powerset painstakingly "reads" every sentence on every Web page and looks for meaning. Google has also hired dozens of specialists in computational linguistics, though its executives warn it will take years before machines can truly understand human text.