Semantic Search Post 3: Profile: Powerset

More consumer focused than freebase is in its current form, Powerset is designed to provide quicker and easier access to existing information by topic. Users submit topics or plain English questions and Powerset provides results – currently using Wikipedia and freebase as its underlying databases. You get your results in a classic searchy list, but also simultaneous access to article and information summaries, a “meaning” or “topic” cloud, and other means to quickly zoom in on the facts you want.

The site offers a demo, which I have embedded here:


Powerset Demo Video from officialpowerset on Vimeo.

Essentially, Powerset is a consumer application utilizing the articles in Wikipedia as well as the relational freebase data and surely more such formatted information sources as it goes along. For the average joe, this will be a very useful means of making semantic search relevant and used by a broad set of the population.

Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to write.