General Information
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Status	Privately Held
Website	powerset.com
Blog	blog.powerset.com
Category	Web
Phone	415-848-7000
Email	info@powerset.com
Address	475 Brannan St San Francisco, CA, 94107 USA
Employees	60
Founded	10/06

People
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Barney Pell

Board / Founder / CTO

Eric Tilenius

Investor

Lorenzo Thione

Founder / Product Architect

Pejman Nozad

Investor

Peter Thiel

Board

Scott Banister

Board of Directors

Funding
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Series A, 6/07 ¹
Foundation Capital
The Founders Fund
Scott Banister

$12.5M

Competitors
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Hakia, TextWise, ChaCha, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Cuill, Blekko, JIxperts, Viewzi

Service Providers
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SHIFT Communications

Tags
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searchengine, google, techcrunch40, natural-language

Powerset
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Powerset is a search engine that focuses on natural language processing. In other words, Powerset will not search based simply on keywords alone, but will try to understand the search phrase as a whole. The goal of the product is to make searching more “natural and intuitive.”

Powerset launched a limited showcase version of its site to the public in May 2008.

Videos

Above:

HyveUp interview with Lorenzo Thione

Products
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Powerset
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Website	powerset.com
Blog	blog.powerset.com
Launch Date	June 11, 2007
Tags	wiki

Above: Powerset Screenshot -- #1

Traffic Analytics

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Comments

sd - May 11, 2008 at 10:00pm

too much hype.

Arman - December 7, 2007 at 2:42pm

Dear colleagues, I red about Powerset in 2006. But I can not see the end of the project and it's like a trick. In any case something must be created to beat the google out. I'm already feed up with them. I'd like to see the Powerlab's functionality asap and get rid from the other search engines. Just a fresh air with fresh ideas... Best regards. Arman

Phrasebase - November 2, 2007 at 1:40pm

I just tried askwiki and irseek.com... absolute garbage results, nothing remotely close to what any of the leading search engines could find with the same query.

TheMain - November 2, 2007 at 9:25am

I got my invite to powerlabs and it's far from natural language processing. They are only allowing users to try 30 different query patterns that are categorized into three content domains. Users are only able to identify the subject of the query. That is NOT natural language processing... The best natural language processing is from askwiki so far: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/11/askwiki-wikiped.html

Elwyn Jenkins - September 19, 2007 at 9:31am

Looks good on face value. Can't wait to try it myself. Will recommend others once I can see what it is.

Leah Soleil - August 26, 2007 at 8:35am

Powerset sounds like a great opportunity for ONLINE MARKETERS to learn more about their target markets; but they seem to take it a step further and make it "extremely" easy to actually target the "specific" questions that customers are asking, in order to deliver them better solutions and find out what their issues are right from the source. Doing this 'natural meta' searching through video and audio media sounds very exciting! Looking forward to launch.