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Powerset has just released a new search for Wikipedia this month.  According to their site: “Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.”

To see more about Powerset please view the following video:

Powerset Demo Video from officialpowerset on Vimeo.

References:
Powerset.com (2008). Ready Powerset go. Retrieved May 27, 2008, from http://www.powerset.com/

Interested in having your own Semantic search application?  You might be interested in licensing technology from hakia.   Hakia is a new type of search engine based on semantics as opposed to ranking methods utilized by keyword search engines.  Keyword search engines use statistical algorithms, and popularity as a means of ranking sites.    However,  even though a particular page may be highly ranked it is not necessarily a high quality result.    Hakia has developed  it’s own proprietary OntoSem technology and will be offering it to other companies.  Third parties therefore can build their own semantic search applications based on this technology.

 At the moment according to their Website, they are currently indexing “verticals such as medicine, finance, law, science, travel, arts, history, and other content rich topics.”

Those interested in knowing more about hakia might consider register for the “hakia club”.

Reference:

Hakia.com (2008). Semantic search on its way.  Retrieved May 16, 2008, from http://company.hakia.com/about.html