Powerset and the Hype Machine

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Yet-to-launch “natural language” search engine Powerset is getting lots and lots of buzz and coverage. Here’s Danny Sullivan’s very skeptical post.

My argument: whatever launches must be obviously better at a glance or it won’t change any behavior. The golden road of search is littered with the bodies of companies that were going to do a better job than Google . . .

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