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After a few months of difficult negotiations, Microsoft and Yahoo have not yet reached an agreement on the acquisition. Although the help of Yahoo challenges Google search field in the leading position of the desire to achieve, but Microsoft has not abandoned its efforts. U.S. "Business Week" of the latest article said, Microsoft will grow in the search business on the implementation of "B Plan", may be about 100 million U.S. dollars to buy the semantic search engine Powerset.
Powerset is headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2005. And Google, Yahoo compared, Powerset is to provide the characteristics of semantic search technology, users can enter a sentence or phrase, the system will be based on the words in context is the meaning of the words on the search results. In other words, the first attempt to semantic search to find what you understood, and then based on the understanding of relevant content, finding the best pages.
Some of the industry believe that the semantic search is the search industry will be the next technology revolution. According to sources, including Microsoft, have been several Internet companies to Powerset expressed interest in the acquisition, Microsoft and Powerset the two companies are currently the spokesman declined to comment.
"Business Week," the article said that if the two can reach a final deal, Microsoft will overtake Google took a big step forward. Market survey shows that Google May in search of the market share of close to 70 percent, but Microsoft’s share has dropped to below six percent. In search of some aspects of the field, Powerset even more than Google welcomed by users. In addition, Powerset semantic search technology, Google was difficult to mimic or surpass. Because Google and other search engine giant has been in the majority of the Internet pages were here and made the index, its main efforts are concentrated in the world of the Internet in each of the new page, so if the use of semantic search technology, it would be Google to start from scratch on the page analysis and classification.
While Microsoft Powerset absorb the semantic search technology also needs to re-page analysis and classification, but Yahoo had acquired the necessary 46 billion U.S. dollars compared to the enormous amount of money, of course, such an investment is "Xiaocaiyidie." Moreover, analysts say, Microsoft and Powerset business there have been many complementary areas. For example, and Google difference is that Microsoft will be its search engine to a specific request, including tourism engine, engine health, etc., which means that both the business integration will become relatively easy.
As the current semantic search technology is not mature, microprocessors often requires more than 20 seconds of time to make the page analysis and classification, many semantic search engine only to a certain page within the browser. For example, Powerset to search only in the Wikipedia article. Analysts believe that Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset may be able to promote the semantic search technology development. In view of this, Harvard Business School associate professor Andelieha long pointed out that Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset is reasonable.
In addition, there is news that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo because of the incident so far no clear results, which will affect Microsoft’s decision to acquire Powerset. Since early February this year, Microsoft’s bid 44.6 billion U.S. dollars to buy Yahoo, the seesaw battle between the two has been in endless staged. June 12, Yahoo and Microsoft were said in a statement, the two companies on the acquisition of the negotiations has failed. June 13, Yahoo announced that it has the same rivals - Google signed a non-exclusive search advertising cooperation agreement. In recent days, according to some U.S. media reports, Microsoft and Yahoo also return to the negotiating table.
