The Sillicon Valley company Powerset that is building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing launched Powerlabs, a community where users can interact with demonstrations of Powerset’s technology, give feedback to help improve our natural language indexing, and suggest ideas for the ideal search engine.
To my mind it is really worth to make a detour to their site. But more because of the open innovation example than the search technology itself – even though their view may be a bit exaggerated: No one has tried to utilize the participation of users on such a scale and at such an early stage of development, but we recognize the potential for the wisdom of crowds to guide our products.
