So when do we get to see this amazing feat ?

Can’t wait till this comes out :-)

Hopefully this’ll be better and safer than Google ^_^

You may not even have estimated the appeal of a Google alternative for those of us disenchanted with Google’s corporate social and cultural stances and activities. I believe there are millions of people who want a search without the ‘tude.

WOw this sounds sooo awesome!! I cant wait until it comes out. nods

I just did a Google search for “birds” and the result indicated there were about 116,000,000 possible sites. Why doesn’t a search engine just list, say, the top 20 or so hits (about 2 pages) and keep track of the ones that are then viewed the most and put them at the top? The poor performers could be dropped over time and new sites added. I think 99% of users would find what they need or be more or less happy with what is found in the top 20 results. For the 1% who don’t find their answer, well, too bad. Search engines try too hard to be all things to all people.

@ Mary: sometimes, the hardest problem people have with search engines is trying to locate that hard to find 1% area that just doesn’t match their keywords. Unfortunately, search engines don’t operate on the same principles as Top 40 radio.

I’m curious though, what are the plans for non-English queries?

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Using the response from the beauty contestant from South Carolina as an example of parsing language is creative. It would have had more impact if you had spelled the state correctly within the body of the paragraph. On my screen, it appears spelled correctly in the deading, but within the body is spelled “Carololina’s”.

Devil in the details kinda stuff, I admit. But, it did jump out.

My apologies. delete the word “deading” in the last sentence, and insert “heading”. I couldn’t find the edit function.

No hits should be removed. What is needed is the ability to jump around within the list. Such as going to the end of the list to see what is deemed of lesser importance. It is also sometimes desirable to do a search within the list.

I can’t wait for this to come out. Why didn’t anyone think of a natural english language search engine before? Maybe if this becomes really popular, they will add more languages (probably french and spanish first.)

This is not by any means a new idea. Ask Jeeves was the first major “natural language” search engine, but it was horrible and failed miserably to produce relevant results. I highly doubt that this will overcome Google in the long run. Google has invested over $2.2 billion in R&D for search technologies since 2005. I’m sure that somewhere in that huge pile of cash is money for developing natural language queries. I bet it takes no more than a year for “Ask Google” Beta to launch in Google Labs.

Good.. seems to be the next logical step in search.. add semantics and intelligence… Worked on a concept called Case Based Reasoning long long time ago.. looks like those pricicples are used in this..

Looks very professional! I am a big fan of Clusty, which was developed at CMU. Given the refinement I am seeing, this looks even better.

What is Powerset’s policy on collecting data from your users and then giving or selling it to government agencies?

I am looking for an honest answer not one that has been sterilized.

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the real web2.0 is about to born.. I hope :o)

I don’t get this. When I look at my search history in google, hardly anything I’m searching for would be better expressed as a natural language query. Are you expecting that powerset is the one-off thing that gets used in those rare cases where natural language is appropriate? I don’t think there’s anything bad about keyword searching when I’m trying to find a professor’s website (just enter their name) or a page about the end of old-time country singer jimmie rodgers’ life (another gem from the last few days). In fact, I think keyword search is terser and more efficient for me. Why would I want to write “what is barney pell’s homepage” when I could just write “barney pell” on google (it’s the first hit, by the way).

I wish you guys luck, but I think you should expect to do pass-through to google for queries that aren’t looking for a specific piece of data. Speaking of which, google does seem to handle that, too… When I enter “when did jimmie rodgers die?”, it comes back with

———————- Jimmie Rodgers (II) — Date of Death: 26 May, 1933

According to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1034229/bio - More sources » ———————-

Call me a skeptic, but I’m skeptical…

As a scientist I hope someone comes out with a way to search within defined parameters. In google even if you define a subject and try to search within the subject, most of the crap comes along. Good luck. Keep us informed. Glad to beta test if you have something.

Perhaps an interesting blog post: how would Powerset parse this sentence? Would it work? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalobuffalobuffalo

Thanks.

The time I would save will be incredible. If this works I’ll be there. Please keep the commercial content to a minimum.

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I have been looking for a search engine that would give answers to specific question instead of thousands of sites vaguely related to my questions that most other search engines go at present.

I wish you all the best for a successful launching of this useful search engine.

Don’t create interest you can’t fulfill.

You’ve created buzz. We came. There’s nothing.

Probably wont be back, too bad.

Do you have any plans to make a Public offering of your stock, like Google did?

This will be wonderful for those times when you don’t exactly know what you are looking for and keywords don’t work. Hopefully you will be able to type in a fairly long description of the item and get an answer. I often have to look for things that I have no idea what they are called, and sometimes by accident find the proper name after searching fruitlessly for hours. Let’s give it a good old try and make it work!

Yo Powerset;

I hope it works out. I am a little tired of going through thousands & thousands (not really) of pages to find an answer. But you get the hint. I am NOT a ‘Whiz-kid”. Please keep it simple

Thank you Jerry

This is an exciting project. Yet I hope every web page will get get ‘fair’ result as they are searched.

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This proyect is the simpliest thing on the web,, anyway, i guess that when you put the question on the searchbox your search engine will take the keywords and search the web,,

its also possible to put questions on google,, whatever you put, they will make almost the impossible to give you what you are searching for,,

there is no one like google.

As technology provides a means for increased available information, and at a blink of an eye….our patience to attain the information apparently decreases. Keep it simple to use, with quick results….and it will be used! Larry

Hi, Will it give powerset also into German language?

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If you want to improve on Google, make the results of the search sortable. I would give anything to be able to sort results by date.

Simple, to the point and we don’t need a million results!

Way to go, I’m waitin’ for this to come out.

-AB

nature language search and communication, we have heard for many years, and seen in the movies (terminator, AI, matrix..etc) ..

I, also tried the ALICE project, and have built a chinese chatbot for myself …

but the turth is, I am not happy with the result .

Hope poeple in Powerset cna give me a surprise this time!

Good luck !!

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Serving only one language is your weakest point and making you incomparable with google. Start your research on other languages like spanish and chinese asap, or you will just be one of the AI engine supporting one particular language in the world. let me know if u need support in chinese.

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Eagerly looking forward to get my hands on this new technology

i think i can help with spanish sentences..

i can smell a great project :)

I realy have no any idea what will be happened in the near future. Because I can feel this new search engine will be change the world soon.

Hahahaha……

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Wow! who would have thought that the day would come when someone else is on the verge of taking down the big “G” and other SE within the next few years.

It just goes to show you that this is the way natural search will evolve.

Great job guys, to your continued online success

Wow, I expect to use your amazing technology for searching through internet. I think this technology is soooo powerful and save much time to scan what I would want to seach from the search result.

Cheers!!!

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I can’t wait to see this baby released. Business Week just said that Powerset should be up there with Google and possibly even better.

I suppose that when you search based on meaning rather than context you will most likely get better results.

Bravo!

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The results will be the tell so to speak. The complexity of search can be tested by a simple iteration through an expanding set of nouns and verbs added to the base search criteria. Mary above was searching for birds which is a very big topic - we don’t want to lose references at all - we need to narrow the search and do it very intelligently.

We don’t ask the library to throw out the 3 shelves of books on birds we don’t need we just narrow our search until we find the flightless birds of Australia.

hits on Google by way of example birds = 110,000,000 birds that cannot fly = 2,140,000 birds cannot fly = 2,070,000 birds cannot fly Australian = 1,890,000 birds cannot fly Australian carnivorous = 238,000 birds cannot fly Australian small carnivorous = 235,000

so we can continue to narrow our search but the result is always based on the same algorithm - look for occurrences of documents that contain all of the words, some of the words etc…

The search engine does not take into consideration Mary’s state of mind i.e. her frustration at still having 235,000 results after having refined her query 10 times.

IMHO the search engine should understand and anticipate the users state of mind based on the progressive multiple attempts at search refinement, it should search for context and word association including lexographic proximity not in the document being searched but in the search term being submitted, the engine should also consider the order of request expansion to follow the thought process of the person searching. If Mary starts out with birds and progresses to Australia last it means there is more interest in birds than Australia and likewise as flightless was entered before Australia there is more interest in all flightless birds than there is in Australian flightless birds. Additionally synonyms and word variants should be automatically and maybe invisible added to the search criteria to assist the user in refinement.

birds cannot fly Australian carnivorous flightless = 15,700 hits

The human brain can easily translate the idea of “cannot fly” into flightless but unless I specifically include it in my query the engine doesn’t add it even though it has the same meaning.

So to end my rambling diatribe It will be interesting to see this engine in operation, is it another natural language reader or is it actually going to exhibit some intelligence ?

Looking forward to testing Powerset. It will be interesting to see this engine in operation. I will be interested to see what “intelligence” it might show in answering my ordinary questions I have each day.

I’m curious what this will bring but I share the fear of someone above in this list, that you’ve created buzz but are still ages away from actually MAKING this natural language search machine. In the end people might give up. Someone above is mentioning the ‘state of mind’ of people that are searching for something and cannot find it. Creating a buzz and now making it true unfortunately will create a similar state of mind (i.e. frustrated). On the other hand I guess that enthousiasm, determination and a pioneer kind of mind (and of couse skilled and intelligent employers) can bring a company far in reaching its goals.

Excuse me, I wrote:

Creating a buzz and now making it true unfortunately will create a similar state of mind (i.e. frustrated).

The fifth word of that sentence, ‘now’, should be ‘not’.

I guess I’m not the only one making a mistake like that. I always like the option in webpages of seeing my comment first in a ‘test page’ and having the option of going back to the comment box before I decide to post it.

I would be very happy if powerset technology allowed for searching against strings as well as natural language. example: find me web pages that have this string in the body of the page: @#567-4G%.

That would allow someone to search on questions like “What is the deal with part number #%234190-G?” or “What is the best workaround for Microsoft bug 1235#39-78G?”

That ALONE would be worth the price of admission and it is something you just can’t do on google even with an advanced exact phraze search with quotes. (as far as I can figure out) :)

I’m looking forward for this new gen of smart search engine to rule.

Any company that constantly refers to Wikipedia as their source of FACTUAL information is laughable.

The hard bit which I very much doubt has been cracked is the disambiguation of the entities that are extracted. While there may be only one Hulk Hogan, for the rest of the world there are many duplicated names and it is hard/impossible to distinguish the differences between entities with the same name.

If this problem is insurmountable (I’d argue it is) then either Powerset is only catering for selected entities (Blair, Britney/Brittany/.. and Hulk Hogan) or it is running the risk of uniting all John Does of the world in its index.

Given the “selected entities” approach maybe Wikipedia serves as the publicly maintained shortlist of “referencable” entities.

would be interesting to compare search results with existig search engines. I’m not anti-google or yahoo or whatever. I just use the one that suits me best. Will this become the defacto search engine? We’ll just have to start searching and hope we don’t wait to long :-)

I wonder how long it will be before you are acquired by Google?

Just an Opinion:) For the hundred of languages/dialects (or more?) around the world, I think we should get this working properly in English first.

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It is about time someone takes a lead in mastering the enigma OF SEARCH. tHE LITTLE FELLOW JUST CAN’T GET A BREAK ON THE WEB WWW.CRIMECLEANOFTEXAS.COM

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Cool project indeed. Sure helps to enhance search engines capability. All the best!

So good to let it happen !

Dear Powerset, Im a student at Hewitt Trussville Middle School and I was wondering how detailed the searchs would be? Would it bring you directly to the website you needed or, would it give you 20 options to choose from other than 15,000 options that google would give you? One more thing, when do we get to start the website?

i just love the idea. I’d be glad to test some beta version soon.

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It good to see some new competition. Good luck to you. Anxious to get started advertising our gymnastic leotards with you.

will powerset go public in a sense that people can invest stock in it?

hope this will solve all the unwanted search .. with million of listing.. in google or yahoo… I think list of 100 is more than enough ! Don’t think you have much time to see all!

No ADS, please! bon chance..

Well, you could have informed me that powerset only works with certian operating systems and only ie7.thanks for wasting my time. also, is wasnt easy to get to the darn search engine, had to spend a lot of time looking for it and get on another computer…just aint worth it. think i’ll be staying with google and all the ad’s…wise you guys luck and a word of advice. when i want to search, i want to do it now, not a half hour later after finding and loggin to the powerset engine…i’ll look for you guys in a year or so and see if you are still around.

Sounds cool on the paper….. Anyway, just wait and see how well it will be in the real world.

I was using www.inference.com search engine a few years back. This search engine used to classified whole search and fill only 2,3 pages. For example if I give India it came up with heading Culture, people, entertainment, weather, News paper etc. or If I give computers, all the computer companies website appear together, history, Software companies website etc. This web site search engine closed now. I like to have that kind of search again.

Looking forward to seeing new generation & intelligent “Search” engin release!!

Sounds cool. Does the mention of “semantic” make this a Web 3.0 search engine?

I think it would make every one’s life easier and to convince people that its better than “GOOGLE”,That would be big task.

Looking forward to seeing new generation most powerful and intelligent”Search”engine release.I hope this will world best search engine.

Have you guys tried www.youlicit.com?

yeah…those 2 billion pages i get…i usually like to look in the 60-70millions first, i believe the best results are there :DPPP have a good one

Nothing terribly new here besides the buzz. Ultimately the success of this will come down to whether the search engine can deliver the most valuable results most all the time.
Right now I often use three or four search engines but I find Google simply delivers better results and respects well written search constructs like “”s I also find the “inurl:” and “site:” constructs hugely useful.

For this search engine to be successful and not be relegated to one of the many “niche players” it needs to deliver both the breadth and depth of google as well as better semantics (such as wildcards) for more specific searching.

Its been my pleasure to keep track of the latest search buzz on the net for me to have a reliable output in my research.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I don’t know if this project will turn big, but anyone who thinks Google is “indestructible” is a moron.

I think the most important thing is to make this a place where people want to come, not just for its service but the overall experience. You should study some of Google’s flaws. Don’t build a reputation as a company who collects sensitive data about users and hands it over to “authorities,” don’t ban ranges of IP’s that result in hundreds of people being unjustly blocked for the wrongdoings of a few, and make it easy and welcoming for people to get involved.

I don’t think I need to say a lot about first impressions, so a good layout is imperative when your engine goes public.

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Will there be more languages than english? And suboffices in Spain?

when the service will be online ?

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When the service come online ? Start with a Betaversion for test. We waiting.

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I try not to be skeptical, but won’t processing natural language take a long time? In my perspective, the fundamental requirements of a search engine depends on the accuracy and the speed of the data-mined result. I hope the ppl in the R&D of PowerSet already have a strategy to counter Google’s PageRank, which not only returns a fairly accurate result (although too many irrelevant at times) but can also give a response in 0.01-0.35 seconds time

I’m still waiting. I have signed up with you, and have yet to see anything happen. When I go to your home page, it asks me to ‘sign up’, which was already done. Nowhere do I see a place to do a search.

why don’t you just buy ask.com, formerly askjeeves.com … ?

There is another amazing new company to launch soon called www.ZOOPRI.com . these two should meet. Zoopri.com is for kids, but it is remarkable. I tried to invest $10K as a seed investor, but minimum is $25K.

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Could this be for people with disabilities/hard of hearing,deaf,etc.Using long term expressions other than just one keyword. Key words are confusing of our thoughts. Older seniors are more complexed, than the younger generation in knowledge of all this new technology.

When are you guys going to let people try out Powerset Labs?? I signed up over month ago.

When am I going to be able to try out this new thing?
I signed up 3 months ago!

I signed up over 6 months ago. Happy waiting.

Will powerset be able to recognize syntax in multiple languages? I spent a year in Korea, and realized that no one in Korea uses Google because the Korean verbiage that was typed into the Google box was poor at recognizing what would make a good “hit”, thus people reverted to their own country’s search engine, Naver.com. It seems as if Eastern languages especially would be an up and coming market to get into if possible. Also, at what stage will powerstat be introducing itself to the stock market?

powerset被寄予厚望，我希望是能比Google更好，I’am waiting for you .

Powerset Labs is a community where users can provide feedback on our product design and natural language engine.

Gee what a novel idea allowing users to help you build your product for FREE !

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Viral marketing gives me a bad buzz.

I don’t know, I actually saw a demo of the technology at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. While it is somewhat impressive, it really isn’t anything mind blowing. People have been doing NLP for many years and I think this is really only beneficial for a limited subset of queries .

I don’t think this will be the next google killer, but it may be a nice alternative to go back to if google fails to find me a query.

Hi. When do you want to launch the system ? we are waiting so long … :-)

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Congrats, finally somebody/something that’s gonna kicks google’s ass, because I’ve had it with them, the most sneaky search engine in history, if I search something for school I get porn links served.

it seems very interesting and promising, but will you offer some kind of adsense/adwords alternative?

Somebody posted earlier to list the Top 20 sites for a given search query. I like the idea.Why not have Recommendation systems like Amazon des? For example you type “cars” the search engine lists a bunch of sites. Then the recommendation engine says people found the following links useful through previous search queries.

NLP is a hard search problem and would be a great feat if this can be made to work.More power to you!

I don’t know what’s going on at Powerset, although I would love to see an open demonstration soon. I am rooting for them.

Still, for those hungry to try out a natural language query tool, take a gander at http://geo.anaphoric.com

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I think this is a hoax. It was supposed to be released in September and we’re still waiting. Seems like somebody had a good laugh at our expense. Ha ha.

I am eagerly waiting for PowerSet to come lets taste something new!!! bst luck ppl ;)

I think this is very interesting!

I think this type of search engine is important because people loves to type in real natural language. A real natural language, just like you say to your friend. hope the natural processing engine you use really works for other Web documents, not only for Wikipedia, so that I can get real answers for queries.

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Does anyone really think this is going to be released? You’re a fool if you do. It’s all publicity in hopes to scare Google. There is no natural language search that works. There’s countless articles about why it doesn’t work. Do some research before you get too excited.

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awesome, cant wait!!