• Powerset Blog, Friday, September 19, 2008 11:45 AM

Microsoft only acquired semantic search startup Powerset about a month ago, but the integration has already greatly improved Live Search in three key ways: better Wikipedia captions, better related search suggestions and better answers to question-style queries.

Before the integration, Wikipedia snippets showed up as sentence fragments in Live Search results; now, the captions are more substantial. Meanwhile, searchers will find more Live Search Answers in the results thanks to Freebase, an open source database that Powerset was already pulling from. Lastly, users will get better related search suggestions, as Live Search is using Powerset's Factz technology to improve relevance.

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