Comments on: Powerset, natural language search platform http://mkaz.com/archives/169/powerset-natural-language-search-platform personal site of marcus kazmierczak Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:26:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: joe http://mkaz.com/archives/169/powerset-natural-language-search-platform/comment-page-1#comment-28905 joe Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:06 +0000 http://mkaz.com/archives/169/powerset-natural-language-search-platform#comment-28905 interesting Marcus...I was actually a developer at iPhrase at that time (ie prior to getting purchased by ibm). Great technology, but unfortunate business strategy. They didn't make it modular until too late. The move to a modular product suite was so that potential clients could make a smaller $ commitment. However, powerset is putting iphrase in the same category as Ask geeves. Saying that it was simple database queries from prepped datasets...This was NOT the case at iphrase. iPhrase did full natural language parsing via porter's algorithm, in addition to database querying, with fallback to keyword search. Iphrase could also dynamically create relevant pages if you remember.....I'm a little offended that their coming off as a more innovative than iPhrase which did all this back in 2000. Good luck to them anyways. Their execution strategy along particular verticals is the same as iphrase as well. interesting Marcus…I was actually a developer at iPhrase at that time (ie prior to getting purchased by ibm). Great technology, but unfortunate business strategy. They didn’t make it modular until too late. The move to a modular product suite was so that potential clients could make a smaller $ commitment.

However, powerset is putting iphrase in the same category as Ask geeves. Saying that it was simple database queries from prepped datasets…This was NOT the case at iphrase. iPhrase did full natural language parsing via porter’s algorithm, in addition to database querying, with fallback to keyword search. Iphrase could also dynamically create relevant pages if you remember…..I’m a little offended that their coming off as a more innovative than iPhrase which did all this back in 2000. Good luck to them anyways.

Their execution strategy along particular verticals is the same as iphrase as well.

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