Microsoft bought Pointset search engine!

Discussion in 'Bing' started by Sam 735, Jun 27, 2008.

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    Microsoft bought Pointset search engine! Pointset can be a competitor for Google in the nearsest future/ As Google is based on process of words, Poinset can process the whole phrase!What do you think?
     
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  2. salamonka

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    do you mean "Powerset" ?
     
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    Yeah. It's powerset not pointset.. haha.
     
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    How much did they buy it for? Is there an article about this somewhere?
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Only a rumour, and it has been a rumour since months ago. ANd yes, it's powerset. What the hell is pointset, anyway? :D
     
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    Not a surprise they buy all their competition
     
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    I just tried Powerset search and its pretty useless IMHO. Winning over Google is far way.
     
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    Powerset is very slow and it should not be able to beat google....
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    I must salute you, you can post "very excellent and good work" for nearly all your 18 posts, aren't you tired of doing that?

     
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    sucks, it is only search for wikipedia and why would anyone come to it when they can just go to wikipedia directly or search using google with "wikipedia" included in the phrase.
     
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    What are the new things on Powerset? What's the famous search Technology that Powerset have so that MS is going to take it? Is Powerset is using world no.1 spider to crawl site and have any capacity to display right contents when Google shows source code for a particular page?

    I've found sometimes Google is showing source code from a page instead of having lots of contents on the page. Do you think buddies showing source code is just for the error coding of Google Spider software?

    For example, see the search url: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=function+{+window.+navigation&start=370&sa=N

    I found the following result:
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    TypePad - Widgets for your Blog - Open Links in a New Window
    window.location.host ) link.target = "_blank"; } } var o = window.onload; window.onload = function( e ) { x( e ); if( o ) return o( e ); } })() ...
    www.sixapart.com/typepad/widgets/weblog-enhancements/open_links_in_a.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

    *****************************************************

    Actually if you open the url, http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/widgets/weblog-enhancements/open_links_in_a.html, you'll get lots of contents. Google picked up the result from the source code. Just look at the page source code and you'll able to see from where Google picked the description instead of from page content.

    Now, my question is, can Powerset show contents instead of source code? If not, then why Microsoft is going to take it. Is it happening due to retire to Bill Gates?
     
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    well there is a reason the big fish remain the big fish: they always eat the little fish
     
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    it will be interesting to see how natural search from powerset is going to compete with Google keyword search.

    Microsoft has made an strategic move here :)
     
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    Google is number 1st and still it is working good so there are so many competitor in the search engin market as like Pointset search engine but googl is best and evergreen.
     
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