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In an apparent attempt to boost it’s rather floundering search presence on the Net, Microsoft announced its plan to purchase the relatively unknown company Powerset.  This startup company has developed semantic search technology based upon natural language processing.

What this type of software does is use specific linguistic algorithms to determine what certain queries submitted to the engine mean, and then formulates answers based on data existing in a knowledge repository. Wikipedia is the repository used by Powerset. Personally, I don’t know...this could be a good or bad thing considering Joe Schmoe public writes Wikipedia. Founded by CEO Barney Pell, COO Steve Newcomb and Product Architect Lorenzo Thione, Powerset is a Silicon Valley company that was first launched in 2006.

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For some people (ourselves included) its just not enough to read the details or highlights from yesterdays announcement, we have that need to be able to watch and feel the need to take it all in.

If you fall into that category then Apple has taken care of you, they have just posted the March 6, 2008 event online for everyone to enjoy.

Watch & Enjoy [Apple]

When you wake up in the morning, what kind of tech news do you want to read?

Do you want to read about the new Nokia phones and patents?… Or the latest and greatest developments in the world of Android?… Or better yet - our take on the recent stock market “crash”?

Whatever it is that you want us to cover, let us know in the comments on this post.  I mean seriously… you guys are the ones that keep us pumping out gadget news every single day… so we’re looking forward to some great feedback!  Click here to go to the comments form »

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve learned that it isn’t easy to migrate from a customized installation of WordPress to ExpressionEngine.  We’re still hard at work getting things moved over, but wanted to give you an update so you didn’t think we jumped ship.

At this point, we can’t make any promises when we’ll be back in full force since the developers have run into problems galore, but we can promise that we’re here to stay and there’s a ton of exciting things coming from Dabbledoo Media and the Gadgetell team.  Who knows… maybe we’ll even have a few more sites for you to frequent!?

On behalf of the Gadgetell team, we really appreciate your patience during our backend’s face-lift.  All of us are getting hyped and ready to keep you up-to-date with daily technology news.  So stay tuned… more Gadgetell goodness coming soon.

Regards,

Doug Berger

We’re not going to make you spend any time with your mother/grandmother/wife or other ‘motherly’ figure but if we don’t it will be bad news. Enjoy your mothers day, we’re off but will be back up tomorrow to get your through your work week with all the tech coverage you need.

If you are going to be sitting in front of your computer anyway then take this time to check out this week’s posts, download and listen to the Gadgetell Podcast 8: The big three from E3 5/9/2006, read our E3 coverage, and be sure to enter the most recent “iZ a day in the month of May contest,” your mother would want you to win.

Until tomorrow, happy Mothers day.