[bluelu]

Cuil is much more worth than powerset is. PowerSet was searching through about 5 million pages? No need for a huge cluster farm!

No offense meant, but I bet if Powerset wouldn't have been sold, you probably would be workless as they would have run out of money very very soon. You can't make money searching through wikipedia, and the technology was nothing more like phrase detection (with verbs, nouns, etc) and simple dictionary lookup. The interface was nice though. I bet the technology wouldn't work with foreign languages too... ;).

What I think powerset has is the skills to run large clusters, to deploy software on a large scale, and to scale things up. These are things that are interesting, but I think the Microsoft guys can do this as well without buying powerset.

If Microsoft would have spend the 100 Million they gave out for buying powerset on 100 google engineers and give each of them 1/3 million each year (so they leave google and I bet many would!), at the end of 2 years, they would have had a much better product at a far better price!