Today on the “Jason Nation”…
Jason asked his followers to compare Powerset v. Google v. Google with a Wikipedia search set (i.e. Rubik’s Cube)
I choose “How to solve the rubik’s cube”
Powerset gave me some really good results; however, the screen was full of text and it was hard to figure out what the result was really giving me
Once you clicked on the result you got a pretty good article
Next, I went on to Google… the results were good, plus you got a screen shot of the video you would likely see if you clicked on the link
The last place I went was Google.com with a “site:wikipedia.com”
As you can see, the result was nothing at all
In my opinion, Powerset has a long way to go and since there are so many search engines out there, it needs to ramp up it’s results!
May 14, 2008 at 4:50 am |
Hey connectedgeek. I saw your post and thought those results looked kinda weird. Interestingly enough, by using a different type of apostrophe they are much better:
http://www.powerset.com/explore/pset?q=How+to+solve+the+rubik%E2%80%99s+cube
That’s definitely a bug, and I’ll make sure to file a ticket about it. Keep playing with the engine. We’re happy to hear your thoughts. Thanks.