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

articles. Currently, these Powerset enhanced results will only appear for a random set of users, but over time, we assume that most of these features will be rolled out for everybody.

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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