Earlier this year, Powerset made a lot of noise by securing the rights to natural language technology from Xerox Parc as it set off to index the Web and building a search destination site.
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Google is the king of search, not by doing anything revolutionary in search, but by simplifying search and improving peripheral sectors like advertising. It did that by acquiring Applied Semantics’ technology and buying its potential competitor Sprinks (see more on this in our Top 10 Best Web Acquisitions of All Time here). The lesson: to win in search, there is no need to radically revolutionize the space, you just need to improve something tangent and you just might win.
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