| Software | Choices | Pros | Cons | Publisher's description | #1 choices | Must-Haves | People | Rating | License | HomePage | OS |
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| #3 in Search Engine | Powerset is a natural language search engine. It's fair to say that Powerset has had a great 2008, having been acquired by Microsoft in July this year. Powerset's goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 0 0 0 0 | Free | http://www.powerset.com/ | Web | ||
| #1 in Scour #7 in Search Engine | Scour is a search tool that blends results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN together in one stream. You can hot-swap between the three, or break out any single result into another search. If you come across a bad result, or one you think should go above the others, you can also vote it up (or down) or leave a comment. Unlike traditional search engines, Scour also has something called Friends Feed, which keeps track of friends on the service and tells you what results they are commenting on. It also rewards users with gift cards for searching, voting, and commenting on good results; doling out points for each user action. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 0 0 0 0 | Free | http://scour.com | Web |
