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Report: Microsoft Buying Would-Be Google-Killer Powerset For $100M
- pchristensen 18y agoThere's already a good discussion of PowerSet on another thread, but at that price the emphasis should be on would-be and not Google Killer.
- pchristensen 18y agoDown voted? Google is worth 2,000x what Powerset is being bought for, and that's money MSFT really wants. If it really could "kill Google", it should be worth more than 0.05% of Google. If the goal is to kill Google, then the price indicates it's a risky bet. If the goal is good semantic search, then buying Powerset's tech and adding MSFT's financial resources to scale it sounds like a really good plan. Exaggeration doesn't help anyone.