More information about the submission and selection process can be found on the State Department's Web site, www.state.gov on its Office of Global Women's Issues page.
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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.
They weren't sophisticated tie-ins, but they did provide an easy way to process a transaction over the web, including secure payment and rudimentary information about the name and type of vendor involved.