Geel_jire Posted May 13, 2008 Today I was reading about this new search engine called 'Powerset' if it does accomplish what it is intended for .... it will most likely replace Google as the primary search engine for most people on the web. The problem with current search engine technologies is: 1- They index content of the page,tags,titles so if somebody searches for a word that is in one of the aforementioned parts of a site all the engine has to do is a quick n dirty pattern matching algorithm. 2- lack of abstraction .. for anybody who is skilled in using search engines you have probably picked up a few technical terms such as: - "Key words" (self explanatory) - AND (logical)all of the words must be in the results e.g [tokyo AND earthquake] -OR (logical)either of the words may be in the result e.g [tokyo OR earhquake ] (you can also substitue OR with +) -Negation (should not be included in the result) suppose every time you put in [tokyo AND/OR earthquake] you also get earthquakes all over japan you can explicitly negate them e.g [tokyo AND earthquake -kyoto] -constant strings (words between "") when you want to retrieve an exact phrase in the result e.g [The last day of] you may not consider these terms technical but they are part of the terminology of computer programming languages and boolean algebra. One of the main goals of a software engineer is to abstract as much as possible the user should be able to use the software without knowing or caring about implementation details such as logical operators. Powerset proposes to solve these problems by Powerset is indexing web pages much differently than normal search engines, which generally just record content to match against keyword queries. Instead, Powerset is trying to understand the content on the page so that it can be matched meaningfully to queries later. Even queries that don’t use matching words. and it uses Natural language processing i.e it can accept as input natural language for example in a traditional search engine you would plug in [tokyo,earthquakes] to find out when tokyo was hit by an earthquake but in natural language processing scenario you could do [when did earthquakes hit tokyo ?] and get a much more detailed answer one of the reasons why is ... natural language processing has the ability to work with synonyms i.e the query 'when did earthquakes hit tokyo' will be treated exactly the same as when did earthquakes hit/strike/impact/stagger tokyo thereby getting multiple searches in 1 go the problems facing it in short term is ... it has to index the entire web which can take a long time but currently it has indexed all of wikipedia so you can use for that ... if it does manage to work as expected this will benefit people who spend hours sifting through millions of google results for what they are looking for. A more detailed explanation of how it works including a short video here and the actual engine : powerset Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geel_jire Posted June 27, 2008 ^ these guys are being acquired by Microsoft for $100 Million .. and they haven't even gotten off the ground yet. if it does not get lost in Microsoft's Massive portfolio this ... search engine has great potential source Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faarax-Brawn Posted June 27, 2008 Ina adeeryalow,is there a tool that i can use to differentiate between the two of you? Preferably one that can kill one of your handles? War unukaa walax aragnay!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geel_jire Posted June 27, 2008 ^ two of who .. yaa Faarax ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chimera Posted June 27, 2008 Google is part of modern pop culture nothing will change this for a long time to come, it's power is similar to back in the day when people needed to find an adress of a company they would say ''Yellowpage it'' same with the Internet: ''google it'', Powerset sounds like some Protein bar - ''Powerset it''...(and you will have lots of energy for more push ups)... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faarax-Brawn Posted June 27, 2008 Originally posted by Geel_jire: ^ two of who .. yaa Faarax ? The two Geeljires baan moodaye inee isku camirayan, L0L. OK OK, i see whatchu did,you replied to yourself using(^^) This. Curve balls inaga daya dee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chimera Posted June 27, 2008 loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faarax-Brawn Posted June 27, 2008 Originally posted by Adam-Zayla: loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool Oh shut it,Yaa Zayla Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geel_jire Posted June 27, 2008 Adam in a sense you're right 'Google' is now part of the language for instance Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English defines 'Google' as: noun 1. a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search verb 1. search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" but reaching ^ this level took some time & initially having a technically superior engine didn't hurt ... when the other folks caught up ... it was too late. If powerset works out ... it will give people who now sift through pages of results to get to what they are looking for .... the ability to search as if you are conversating in 'natural language' ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chimera Posted June 27, 2008 Originally posted by Faarax-Brawn: quote:Originally posted by Adam-Zayla: loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool Oh shut it,Yaa Zayla Me? or the other Adam Zayla's in this topic Geeljire it's the name that made it so 'catchy' and popular, i don't see powerset ever reaching that level with a name like that Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
