by Frederic Lardinois
Microsoft only acquired the semantic search engine Powerset a little more than a month ago, but today, the Powerset team already announced the first integration of its search technology into Microsoft’s Live Search. Specifically, Live Search will now show better instant answers for queries like “San Francisco weather” and return better results based on Freebase and Wikipedia
Powerset has also integrated xRank biographies into Live Search, which, at least for us, appeared in almost every related search. Live Search will also make use of Powerset’s Factz engine to display better related searches.

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