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Pell actually worked for almost a decade for the NASA Ames Research Center before starting Powerset.
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Powerset, in its internal testing, has so far indexed only the contents of Wikipedia.
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Barney Pell co-founded the ambitious start-up Powerset in 2005 that aimed to upend the search engine market.
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Powerset, last year's "Google killer, " sold out to Microsoft earlier this year.
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Newcomb is a veteran startup entrepreneur who most famously sold his company PowerSet to Microsoft where it was incorporated into Bing.
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Powerset was among the earliest users of Intel 8-core processors, as well as an early user of Amazon EC2 cloud computing and Mechanical Turk services.
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As Powerset built on new technologies to build its search engine, Moon Express is building on new technologies to get to the moon, Pell said.
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Pell says that Powerset's understanding of language means his search engine can actually reward users' full-sentence queries with more relevant, meaningful results than they get from the big search engines now.
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Reading the sentence "Born to Dorothy and Hugh Rodham in 1947, Hillary Clinton is a New York senator, " Powerset will disassemble the sentence's grammar and extract the fact of Hillary Clinton's birth date.
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The game was still producing new content, with a new powerset coming out 2 weeks before the announcement and a new major content and story update scheduled to be coming in the next month.
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Powerset, the search engine that Pell created in 2003 and plans to open to the public in 2008, is one of a new crop of "semantic search" start-ups that aim to introduce natural language to the process of finding information on the Web.
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