Semantics In, Popularity Out

We congratulate Powerset for their launch. Some people must have a gun pointed at their heads to rush to a conclusion using one or two examples. Powerset is good, powerset is bad, etc. Well, I think they all are missing the point. So much for encouragement!
The clear message is this: Semantic technology is here, and [...]

Powerset vs. Google: The Completely Premature Head-to-Head

As our network blog AltSearchEngines reported this morning, the long-awaited and much hyped natural language processing search engine Powerset launched this morning. Kind of. For now, the search service only uses Wikipedia and Freebase as source material for answers to your query. So it’s not really fair to compare it to Google yet, but this [...]

Yahoo Releases Safe Search Product into Beta

Yahoo has teamed up with McAfee to develop SearchScan, a new safe search service. Here’s what you need to know… Read more on SearchEngineWatch
Very useful feature indeed, however I dont get it why dont they offer it in all the countries…