On The Christian Science Monitor, Chris Gaylord says that till now, Ask Jeeves? search engine, which had branded itself as the web’s trusty maître d’ where you can type in your query in the form of a question – and Jeeves suggested where you could find an answer, was the best way to find your answer. But now, the Powerset startup website actually reads what you wrote. The search engine encourages you to write the way you speak, and then uses your phrasing to search entries in Wikipedia. Powerset is an early player in what’s called “semantic search” and Gaylord tells surfers to expect a lot more of these natural-language options to come.
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