On Friday, August 1st at 5:15 p.m., Powerset officially became part of the Microsoft family. Though the deal was announced on July 1, 2008, there were a few more i’s to be dotted and t’s to be crossed. That’s all finished and the deal is done. Our employees are excited to be a part of Microsoft and the Live Search team.Integration is underway in force. This Thursday and Friday, there will be a bunch of folks down from Redmond for a Symposium to share details about our respective technologies. We’re excited to learn about everything now available to Powerset in the Live Search stack. We're also excited to share the cool things we’ve cooked up here at Powerset and start planning opportunities for us to integrate with Live Search. Check back over the next month to see what we’re up to both on this blog and the Live Search team blog.
Through our Powerset division , Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content to help with
