Comments on: Powerlabs: An insight into Powerset’s technology http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/ "Fortitudine Vincimus" - Rants and thoughts of an optimist mind Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:27:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: alexbarrera http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-32 alexbarrera Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:31:08 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-32 Hi Katie, I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did :) Feel free to take pieces and craft it into the FAQ, it would be an honor ;) I keep login in, trying to beat all of you guys with my karma points. I'm pretty curious as to what the new features are going to be. Hi Katie,
I’m glad you enjoyed it as much as I did :) Feel free to take pieces and craft it into the FAQ, it would be an honor ;)

I keep login in, trying to beat all of you guys with my karma points. I’m pretty curious as to what the new features are going to be.

]]> By: Katie Conry http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-31 Katie Conry Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:19:09 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-31 Thanks so much for this detailed blog post! We should add it as part of the FAQ. :) Glad to hear that you are enjoying Powerlabs. We hope you continue to log in; we've got many new features and demos coming soon. - Katie Conry Powerlabs Analyst Thanks so much for this detailed blog post! We should add it as part of the FAQ. :)
Glad to hear that you are enjoying Powerlabs. We hope you continue to log in; we’ve got many new features and demos coming soon.

- Katie Conry
Powerlabs Analyst

]]> By: alexbarrera http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-30 alexbarrera Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:55:05 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-30 Hi Mark, I think Powerset will find it's space and eventually will start growing, albeit slowly at first. For me, the main problem is to learn to search for something in a semantical fashion. People are so used to keywords that it's difficult at first to know what exact phrase you need to get the best out of the search engine. For example, if you use obscure verbs you might get worse result than if you use more common verbs. Or for example, the use of negations like: "some gadget that is not red" might give strange results (yet). But I do think that the quality of some of the results is much better than current search engines. The problem is that it's too early to know if Powerset's engine will work in the same fashion on a bigger scale. I haven't used Mahalo in the past. I played a little bit with it last day and well, I do see some of its value, but not as a search engine. It won't scale as fast as Powerset (if they do it correclty). I think they are targeted to different users. If you see their alexa traffic they are gaining users at a very slowly rate. What is your opinion on Mahalo and Powerset? Hi Mark,
I think Powerset will find it’s space and eventually will start growing, albeit slowly at first. For me, the main problem is to learn to search for something in a semantical fashion. People are so used to keywords that it’s difficult at first to know what exact phrase you need to get the best out of the search engine. For example, if you use obscure verbs you might get worse result than if you use more common verbs. Or for example, the use of negations like: “some gadget that is not red” might give strange results (yet). But I do think that the quality of some of the results is much better than current search engines. The problem is that it’s too early to know if Powerset’s engine will work in the same fashion on a bigger scale. I haven’t used Mahalo in the past. I played a little bit with it last day and well, I do see some of its value, but not as a search engine. It won’t scale as fast as Powerset (if they do it correclty). I think they are targeted to different users. If you see their alexa traffic they are gaining users at a very slowly rate. What is your opinion on Mahalo and Powerset?

]]> By: Mark Evans http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-29 Mark Evans Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:03:02 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-29 So, do you have a sense yet about how Powerset is going to fit into the search landscape? Does it strike you as a better Mahalo, for example? Call me curious. :) So, do you have a sense yet about how Powerset is going to fit into the search landscape? Does it strike you as a better Mahalo, for example?

Call me curious. :)

]]> By: alexbarrera http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-28 alexbarrera Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:01:36 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-28 Hi checkapos, I'm glad you like these topics. I'm going to write more about this topics in the future as it's probably one of the future trends in search engines. If you want to keep updated you can always subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AlwaysNewMistakes" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hi checkapos, I’m glad you like these topics. I’m going to write more about this topics in the future as it’s probably one of the future trends in search engines. If you want to keep updated you can always subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog here.

]]> By: checkapos http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-27 checkapos Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:33:06 +0000 http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/powerlabs-and-insight-into-powersets-technology/#comment-27 hello waz up am a science student,i found this topic very appealing,i will like to get more of you topics hello waz up am a science student,i found this topic very appealing,i will like to get more of you topics

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