Anyone else get in to the powerset Beta?? I am member number 267

http://www.powerset.com

They have launched a demo version, and it precisely matches searches if you ask real questions ... by analyzing the sentence structures of the query and the pages it reads.

In the beta, they have indexed all of wikipedia for you to test on, submit suggestions, win prizes for your efforts, and all that jazz.

11/6/2007 7:47:15 PM

That's pretty brilliant for indexing quantities of known (maybe not so factual, depends on your feelings about Wikipedia) data based on human understanding. However there's no way they could modify it to index content like Google does, they are inherently different purposes.

I signed up, definitely interesting.

11/6/2007 8:05:30 PM

badass, just signed up

11/7/2007 1:06:39 PM

so google will be acquiring them when?

11/7/2007 1:42:52 PM

just signed up also.

11/7/2007 1:55:01 PM

mhum.... another "google killer". right.

it's going to take a lot more than one killer feature to dethrone google.
Ask.com offers a much nicer "user experience" than google does on nearly all aspects (including ultra powerful maps and map searching), but they remain barely a blip on google's radar.
Even live.com and yahoo.com both have certain aspects of their search experiences that are better than google.

By offering more and more integrated services, Google is attempting to increase their user's switching costs. For example, even though I know the search results page is just plain nicer on Ask.com, i can't seem to pull myself away from google because of all the other Google services that I use all day.

11/7/2007 2:34:44 PM

the word 'google' is more saturated on the internets. nothing will dethrone them. i am not a fanboy, but the word 'google' doesn't lie.

11/7/2007 2:36:08 PM