Microsoft “not buying” story ends

Friday, June 27th, 2008

It’s less than a week since Microsoft said “it will not buy another Internet company” and yet, once Bill Gates left, the giant buys Powerset, a niche search engine. This is not an official thing, the source is VentureBeat.
Microsoft also will buy portuguese company MobiComp, this time it’s an official info.

Powerset, a Google killer?

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The San Francisco startup Powerset went live on Monday (12th May 2008) with its new semantic search engine for the Internet. The launch of the service has been anticipated for months, with US media speculating about the chances for success of the service, referred to both as the “Google killer” and a takeover target for [...]