Powerset, The Neutered Version
September 17, 2008 at 16:07 PM EDT
Microsoft promises that this is just the beginning of the integration with the recently acquired Powerset , but incorporating better Wikipedia clips into Live Search is a far cry from the original promise of the next generation search startup: true natural language search. Instead we have more Live Search results with dedicated answers (not sure why Powerset was needed for this), and better Wikipedia results ( "Since Wikipedia articles show up in a large percentage of Live Search queries, it’s important that the captions are top notch." ).