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Playing with Powerset: search shows promise, has challenges

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Powerset is the latest company to take a crack at making search better. Armed with "native language processing technology," the semantic search startup has focused its initial offering on Wikipedia, bringing result aggregation, tags, and better tools to searching the Internet's public encyclopedia. Ars Technica gets hands-on with Powerset's semantic search engine to see if it has a chance once the company turns to the rest of the web.

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