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Powerset: a Hail Mary pass for MSFT?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Matt Marshall over at VentureBeat says he has it on good authority that Microsoft is planning to make an offer for Powerset, the “semantic search” startup that has been in stealth mode for quite awhile now, popping up only long enough for a party or two, and recently po ... Continue reading »

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  • chender

    1 year ago

    Now this is genuinely interesting, and potentially bigger than all the Yahoo blah. Microsoft needs winners to blast itself into areas that it has not produced value, and that would certainly include search. The semantic web does not get any play except amongst ultra geeks, and so it is high risk, but if you are going to make a bet Powerset is the one to nail down now.
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  • Peter Berger

    1 year ago

    Powerset is not a pump and dump like so many of the social networks. They have taken the technology to a large scale proof-of-concept that now need serious financing to take to fully commercial operation. Value is not all about how many eyeballs are on a site today, but how many can be on the site in the next few years.
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