November 19, 2006

Google and Powerset in the Sunday Times

Powerset was mentioned today in The Sunday Times in an article
entitled: Quest for
last word in search, by Paul Durman.

The article interviews my friend Peter Norvig, now director of research at Google, and discusses natural language search. Here are some relevant excerpts:

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Posted by barney on November 19, 2006 at 10:39 pm | No Comments

November 9, 2006

John Battelle interviews Yahoo’s David Filo and Bradley Horowitz at Web2.0

Here are my raw notes from the talk just now.
It came right after a fascinating panel with teens and parents, in which almost everyone knew and used Google and Myspace, with Yahoo receding in the distance. In contrast, David and Bradley seemed very positive about Yahoo’s situation and prospects for the future. They have had competitors over the last 12 years, and this isn’t much different from the past.

At least we had a promise from David Filo that there wouldn’t be any announcement about Microsoft acquiring Yahoo tomorrow.

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Posted by barney on November 9, 2006 at 5:32 pm | No Comments

November 4, 2006

Amazon Web Services and Powerset in Business Week article

Jeff Bezos Cover of Business Week
Rob Hof at Business Week just came out with an article called Jeff Bezos’s Risky Bet. The article talks about Amazon’s Web Services initiative, in which Amazon is enabling other companies to take advantage of the massive technology infrastructure Amazon has developed to power its own operations:

Amazon has spent 12 years and $2 billion perfecting many of the pieces behind its online store. By most accounts, those operations are now among the biggest and most reliable in the world. “All the kinds of things you need to build great Web-scale applications are already in the guts of Amazon,” says Bezos. “The only difference is, we’re now exposing the guts, making [them] available to others.”

This article was the first to announce that Powerset is one of the major early customers for Amazon’s new Electric Compute Cloud (EC2) Web service. Here are the relevant paragraphs, which mention Powerset and some of our key angel investors:

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Posted by barney on November 4, 2006 at 2:57 pm | No Comments