I thought that I understood the basic set-up at the natural language search engine, Powerset, but then again!

However clever the developers might be, I don't know if their publicity machine is working. Is the search engine called Powerset as per the clip below from the Powerset website?




Or is the search engine due for release in September called Powerlab and is part of a Powerlabs.posse of products already out in the wild?

I offer the second option which is in contradiction to the above banner but in accordance with press releases and other bloggings by Powerset company members.ie The latest press release states that Powerlab is coming out in September. Doubly weird when I am already a Powerlabber!

SCREAM SCREAM. Name please!

So wtf is the enthusiasm for natural language when the geniuses changing the way we search create such ambiguous weirdness with their naming scheme?? Since having errors in my basic research pointed out by their product manager, I have tried to be a good little thoroughly reliable Power whatever it is researcher, but I am getting really confused.

One theory is that the keyword searches I have been doing to find out about them in Google is the proof that they are onto something with a radical natural search engine that would clearly answer the question, So whichis it, please, the powerset or the powerlab natural language search tool??

Smoke and mirrors

Their naming protocol is so arcane and confusing it makes me still wonder what natural language they are going to be using at the core of their search program. And if there is such mental exertion required to grasp the name of the search engine, I wonder what they are doing involving the general public at this Beta stage? Are we being lined up for the blame for any final failure. It is the beta testers' lack of linguistic analysis abilities that has ruined this natural search engine!

Maybe I am illiterate and don't really merit a role in this exercise? I thought I was quite good at linguistics at University though. Should I get Noam Chomsky's ape to explain it all to me?

Google v Powerset

As I said in a past Powerset post, these guys are deserving of support. When you put their aims in the context of producing the search equivalent of a Babel fish that acts in a human way, good luck to them. I also think Google need a kick up the ass, but are these Power hungry guys the ones to topple Larry, Sergy and co from their lofty search perch? Dunno.

It is all about positioning these days and multi billion Gooogle have the clout to park right up Powerset's ass if they want, engines running, waving blank checks to make sure they get what they want. .

My money is indeed on Powerset becoming Powerdoodle, a part of the Google division, taking this AI style search onward to a final conclusion and inclusion in Goooooogle search. The founders are hoping otherwise, because no way are Google share options going to go up as much as Powerset's might. But please give yourselves a chance and get the Power*.* branding right first.