Comments on: Powerset Vs Google http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Barney Pell's Weblog http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66231 Barney Pell's Weblog Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:26:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66231 <p><strong>The Powerset Blogstorm: 1 week later…</strong></p> <p>I wrote a week ago about how Powerset had become the subject of a blog storm, and shared my vision of natural language search. Little did I realize that the storm had barely started. One week later, there are now…</p> The Powerset Blogstorm: 1 week later…

I wrote a week ago about how Powerset had become the subject of a blog storm, and shared my vision of natural language search. Little did I realize that the storm had barely started. One week later, there are now…

]]> By: Elias Kai http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66230 Elias Kai Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:11:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66230 <p>Powerset founder’s Barney Pell is a Yahoo fan ( as I noticed he uses Yahoo Groups to help people he knows get the right job)</p> <p>So we can conclude that the PhD guy is a social search geek. Let’s wait and see if the buzz becomes a reality.</p> Powerset founder’s Barney Pell is a Yahoo fan ( as I noticed he uses Yahoo Groups to help people he knows get the right job)

So we can conclude that the PhD guy is a social search geek. Let’s wait and see if the buzz becomes a reality.

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66229 dave Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:04:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66229 <p>okay, dumb to be covering a company with technology that we can't use, but here's my two cents: the name 'powerset' suggests that the team is looking at 'sets' (think 'google sets' within labs), and my understanding is that this kind of exploration is born of drilling into the data, and applying decision theory and creating a new way to find relevance in results far beyond page rank…elgoog is already looking hard at this, though a quick look at the lead technical dude from powerset suggests that this has something to do with it (perhaps pairing and grouping results by relevance and topic, similar to teoma..err, i mean similar to ask.com, which is really teoma…but what's the point? hasn't elgoog already hinted that they're looking at new areas of personalized search? this company - in a space this crowded - feels like a FEATURE and not a COMPANY, imho…</p> okay, dumb to be covering a company with technology that we can’t use, but here’s my two cents: the name ‘powerset’ suggests that the team is looking at ’sets’ (think ‘google sets’ within labs), and my understanding is that this kind of exploration is born of drilling into the data, and applying decision theory and creating a new way to find relevance in results far beyond page rank…elgoog is already looking hard at this, though a quick look at the lead technical dude from powerset suggests that this has something to do with it (perhaps pairing and grouping results by relevance and topic, similar to teoma..err, i mean similar to ask.com, which is really teoma…but what’s the point? hasn’t elgoog already hinted that they’re looking at new areas of personalized search? this company – in a space this crowded – feels like a FEATURE and not a COMPANY, imho…

]]> By: ChessNerd http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66228 ChessNerd Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:54:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66228 <p>Powerset is the WORST brand name I have heard of for a search engine. Sounds like tennis gear…</p> Powerset is the WORST brand name I have heard of for a search engine. Sounds like tennis gear…

]]> By: miten sampat http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66227 miten sampat Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:48:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66227 <p>Its too early to say. Om, I think this poll is a few months ahead of its time.</p> <p>Lets wait for the first product to launch and see what they have. Only then can one say who will beat who.</p> <p>-miten</p> Its too early to say. Om, I think this poll is a few months ahead of its time.

Lets wait for the first product to launch and see what they have. Only then can one say who will beat who.

-miten

]]> By: Adam MacDonald http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66226 Adam MacDonald Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:56:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66226 <p>Pardon my ignorance, but what's my incentive to switch? People gave up on all the other search engines, even when upstarts like Northern Light were better filters, mostly because Google was simpler. This sounds like more complexity for more accuracy. I don't see my searches in Google being that hard and I can suffer some accuracy because it's a low impact to search again. Are consumers aching for better search? I don't see the new value for me in this innovation, or more accurately, I don't see any strong benefit to switching or any cost to not switching.</p> Pardon my ignorance, but what’s my incentive to switch? People gave up on all the other search engines, even when upstarts like Northern Light were better filters, mostly because Google was simpler. This sounds like more complexity for more accuracy. I don’t see my searches in Google being that hard and I can suffer some accuracy because it’s a low impact to search again. Are consumers aching for better search? I don’t see the new value for me in this innovation, or more accurately, I don’t see any strong benefit to switching or any cost to not switching.

]]> By: WebMetricsGuru http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66225 WebMetricsGuru Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:59:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66225 <p><strong>Powerset Vs Google…</strong></p> <p>Speculation about Powerset is growing in the Blogosphere - but until I see it in action I won't have an opinion, one way or the other, it it has any chance to unseating Google.  Right now, all I have heard…</p> Powerset Vs Google…

Speculation about Powerset is growing in the Blogosphere – but until I see it in action I won’t have an opinion, one way or the other, it it has any chance to unseating Google.  Right now, all I have heard…

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66224 Om Malik Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:58:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66224 <p>Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I still think there is a lot which has to go right for this little company before it can really get somewhere versus Google. I find it hard to believe that Google is just sitting still, and not working on similar technologies. Just my two cents.</p> Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I still think there is a lot which has to go right for this little company before it can really get somewhere versus Google. I find it hard to believe that Google is just sitting still, and not working on similar technologies. Just my two cents.

]]> By: Russell Heimlich http://gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66223 Russell Heimlich Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:41:56 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/#comment-66223 <p>If anything, Google will simply buy Powerset if it proves its worth.</p> If anything, Google will simply buy Powerset if it proves its worth.

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