Briefly, Powerset gets a writeup in The Observer:
Barney Pell is pursuing the dream of a 'natural language' search engine. He says that today's products, such as Google, search only for keywords and cannot, for example, distinguish between 'book for children', 'book by children', and 'book about children'. But a natural language search could identify 'function' words, understand that word order means something and respect the importance of small 'stop words'. Pell, 38, believes Powerset's search engine, soon to be launched, will be a catalyst for the 'semantic web'.
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