http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/05/12/powerset-good-for-searching-wikipedia/ I say potato, you say potato... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/05/12/powerset-good-for-searching-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-44856 Ender Tue, 13 May 2008 05:48:12 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=753#comment-44856 NLP might be suitable for searching something with extremely limited scope and uniform structure (Wikipedia articles), but the default Wikipedia search is already quite adept at finding what I want. Interesting idea, but still a long ways from being a definitive improvement over "keywordese". NLP might be suitable for searching something with extremely limited scope and uniform structure (Wikipedia articles), but the default Wikipedia search is already quite adept at finding what I want. Interesting idea, but still a long ways from being a definitive improvement over “keywordese”.

]]> http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/05/12/powerset-good-for-searching-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-44834 Hung Tue, 13 May 2008 01:19:57 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=753#comment-44834 Okay, PowerSet might serve well as a neat-o frontend for Wikipedia. But that qualify it as a search engine? Even after expanding the sources of content to many site won't do much for finding anything in the "deep web" if you guys don't have some kind of crawler. Maybe you do and you're not returning results from it yet. Okay, PowerSet might serve well as a neat-o frontend for Wikipedia. But that qualify it as a search engine? Even after expanding the sources of content to many site won’t do much for finding anything in the “deep web” if you guys don’t have some kind of crawler. Maybe you do and you’re not returning results from it yet.

]]> http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/05/12/powerset-good-for-searching-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-44832 Mark Johnson Tue, 13 May 2008 01:10:46 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=753#comment-44832 Search for topics that are in Wikipedia and you'll get a much better experience. You don't even need to ask a question: just type in a topic name. Also, check out our enhanced Wikipedia pages that have tools for summarizing content. Search for topics that are in Wikipedia and you’ll get a much better experience. You don’t even need to ask a question: just type in a topic name. Also, check out our enhanced Wikipedia pages that have tools for summarizing content.

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