Building a Better Search Engine

July 31, 2007 | Source: Technology Review

Powerset, Inc. is on the verge of offering an innovative natural-language search engine, based on linguistic research at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

The engine does more than merely accept queries asked in the form of a question. The company claims that the engine finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages.