Powerset: search new?

the Company Powerset, which has been repeatedly mentioned over the last couple of years as a promising startup, yesterday still "labored" the eponymous search service. Unlike standard search engines, Powerset offers the user a search for the facts, interpret the meaning of values and the answers to the questions. At the moment, as the database search engine uses the resources of Wikipedia and Freebase.

/ > "Playing" a while with queries and flipping through the list of issue, I'm not that enthused. But emotions are generally positive. For starters, the cons. First, it stated in the Freebase list of issue could not be found. The search is only for Wikipedia articles. Secondly, the search only by key words in the English language. Russian language Powerset refuses to understand. Well, okay, the developers did not initially plan support for multiple languages. I hope in the future they have this "defect" will fix it. Also note that all questions Wikipedia to answer not. Accordingly, Powerset, too.

But what there is impresses. Convenience (nice "usability" and without unnecessary frills), simple and very complete compilation of information found on a particular phrase or question. So (please refer to the examples on the website of the search engine), if you type in the search box the phrase "actors in pulp fiction," that Powerset not only takes a little list of actors who starred in "pulp fiction" (with photos, if any), but also a whole heap of extra information about the actors and about the film. Interesting and promising. Another would be to try it in Russian...

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