How to be worth $100 million...
Posted by Linus Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT
Last week it was announced that Microsoft would be buying Powerset for $100 million dollars. Powerset, for those who have never heard of it, is a search engine that was dubbed the “Google Killer” since it would allow users to do semantic searches. Unfortunately they have been years delayed and when they finally did release, 3 months ago, it was restricted to only Wikipedia and was severely inaccurate. However that was months ago and a lot can change.
After the acquisition was announced I decided to put them to another test and see how good they were at finding the title to the latest Bond movie (named Quantum of Solace) .
Here are the results:
Google won this contest by getting the answer in the first link:
Yahoo placed second with the answer in the 2nd link:
Finally Powerset rounded the rear and the answer was in the 4th link:
It seems like Powerset still has some ways to go. However Microsoft’s own search engine Live.com got the answer as the 7th result.
The morale of the story? Even if you’re bad at what you do, as long as you’re better than Microsoft, you can still be worth $100 million.
I dont really think powerset is bad! Okay, Google is better than powerset, but come on, Google and yahoo are much more bigger, isn’t it?