Going to See PowerSet at SFBeta tonight!
July 24, 2007
I’m super excited. After tons of hype, I finally get to see a live demo of PowerSet, the “secretive new search engine that claims to have cracked the natural language search problem”. The event is SFBeta; it’s being held at 111 Minna in the city.
The geek within wishes for a great demo and restoration of a “childlike sense of wonder” (thanks Fake Steve!). But the cynic within wishes for a fall-flat-on-their-face demo. Oh, the sense of schadenfreude!
I’ll update with my thoughts when I get back!
I hope that the angel on your shoulder and our demo win out over your desire to see us flop =) Stop by the demo pods after the big demo tonight and say hi!
-Mark Johnson, Powerset Product Manager
Thanks for the ping, Mark! Looking forward to your demo tonight…talk to you soon =)
[...] my last post (where I totally got busted for being a dirtbag cynic), I wanted to post my thoughts on the SFBeta event [...]
Stumbled upon your blog while wandering in cyberspace and enjoyed reading it! Although I have to admit the techie stuff went wayy over my head(:
Thanks Meg – let me know what stuff made no sense (if you care). Always happy to get on a damn soapbox to talk about tech stuff
and other areas of interest.
You should take a look at http://www.linguisticagents.com. It’s a start-up company that has developed a natural language understanding technology that will be used in many applications in addition to search. This technology uses a deep parsing algorithm that is based on nano-syntax technology