Yahoo! Inc recently announced the release of BOSS - its open search (web-service based) platform. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) exposes Yahoo Search through an App ID and a web-service. It will be interesting to see how BOSS matures around two main search engine buzz-words: vertical search and semantic search capabilities. I spent some [...]
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PowerSet and MSFT finally announced this rumored acquisition. MSFT has acquired Powerset for close to $100 million. Powerset is a semantic search engine that extends the XEROX-PARC’s licensed linguistic technology. I have tried Powerset when it was a beta and when it got (almost abruptly) released (with search limited to wikipedia and freebase). |
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