semantic analysis based searches
May 13th, 2008I just read a news article about powerset, a new semantic analysis web search engine. Finally they went online, so I gave it a try:
“What do Pandas eat?” was my question.
And the answer:
Factz from Wikipedia: we found that panda eats the following
panda eats :
feces, crop, bamboo, species, phone and girl.
which was quite good in my opinion but also funny.
The sentence that spoiled the search result was hidden in an article about the band “Fantastic Plastic Machine”:
“… The commercial featured a panda that eats a girl and her cell phone; the three are then transported into an ethereal Louis Vuitton world. …”