Powerset, the newest part of Microsoft

Microsoft, the world's largest multinational computer technology corporation, announced that they already bought Powerset, a search engine that allows people to use phrases, questions rather than keywords in order to get the best result for their web search. How did they do that? It’s because Powerset uses a "natural language processing" or NLP technology in a software platform to better match what the user is really looking for. Basically, it's better than other search engines that find and matches every word you type in the search box.

Powerset recently used their NLP technology in today’s leading website encyclopedia, Wikipedia. By using Powerset's technology; it can essentially enhance the free Live Search service of Microsoft, which is in 3rd place behind Google and Yahoo’s.

Microsoft keeps the acquisition price of Powerset confidential and was not disclosed. We just all hope that they will continue to provide users better search results and eventually beat the reigning Internet search and advertising engine, Google.

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