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Who won Survivor last night? Powerset doesn’t know.
Okay - maybe that’s an unfair question for Powerset since the aptly-named Parvati Shallow only won Survivor Micronesia last night. It might be easier to ask “Who is Parvati? The answer: in Sanskrit, “parvati” means “Mountain’s daughter” one of the names for Shiva’s wife, the Universal Mother.
So what is Powerset? That’s a much more intelligent question to ask.
Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine metaphor-challenged mainstream media call the Google Killer. That means you can type questions in a search box the way you normally ask them. (Think Ask Jeeves 1.5)
That doesn’t mean natural language search or Powerset can kill Google, or even commit assault and battery on Google.
Powerset launched with a smart concept: better search results than Wikipedia’s own search box. So the play is a “non-Google Custom Search Engine” for Wikipedia. Let’s see about what Powerset can can do..
“What is Powerset?” we asked. Powerset separates results by combining the primary keyword (Powerset) with related verbs and nouns from Web pages and Wikipedia. Here’s the answer we weren’t looking for from Powerset itself.
Factz from Wikipedia: we found the following about Powerset Powerset opened : community and Powerlabs.
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Powerset (company) In a form of beta testing, Powerset opened an online community called Powerlabs on September 17, 2007.
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Powerset (company) In a form of beta testing, Powerset opened an online community called Powerlabs on September 17, 2007.
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Powerset (company) (Powerset is not currently selling or displaying any advertising.)
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Powerlabs Let’s roll, is a prerelease of Powerset’s general natural language search.
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Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.

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Laura Hudgens realizes it was all a fluke.
She wasn’t one to regularly check her breasts. At 26, she spent her days more focused on her training specialist job at a real estate company and on having fun with friends.
Then, last October, she discovered a lump.
“I found it. And I sat there. It (cancer) crossed my mind,” she said. “I Googled ‘lumps’ but I was like, ‘What’s a lump?’ Then, I was like, ‘No way. I’m so young and this doesn’t even run in my family.”‘
Then again, she still wondered: What if?
Hudgens decided to wait until a scheduled physical the next month to ask her doctor, who suggested she see a specialist.
A biopsy in December confirmed the news she had thought to be unfathomable: She had breast cancer at 26.
Her family and friends were just as shocked. “I think everybody just assumes that it happens to older women,” said Kathy Menis of Barrington, Hudgens’ older sister.
But they quickly rallied around her.
“From hearing people cry, I knew I had to be positive. I didn’t want to bring them down,” said Hudgens, a Des Plaines native.
“No one knows what to say. But at that point, it kind of just turned into… ‘I can’t sit here and feel sorry for myself. I have to be strong and fight it.’”
Menis wanted to do something to show her younger sister that she had a strong base of emotional support to lean on.
She proposed a party with the theme of reaching for the stars, like a cosmonaut, before Hudgens underwent her mastectomy in January.
Menis wanted to send her sister the message: “We’re going to be here for you Laura and we’re going to reach up as high as we can.”
Using the cosmonaut theme also was a play on words — they would toast with cosmopolitans.

dailyherald.com

In its second twofer of the season Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites (Thursdays at 8 pm/ET on CBS) said goodbye to a pair of fans last Wednesday when Kathleen Sleckman and Tracy Hughes-Wolf saw their dreams of a million-dollar prize slip away. Although she was a tough competitor, Tracy’s strong alliance with two of the show’s weakest players kept her scrambling for position. Meanwhile, Kathy’s fondness for the favorites never wavered, but the rigors of the game zapped her motivation, and in a move that has secured her a spot in Survivor history, she chose to quit the show. TVGuide.com caught up with both women to discuss their exits and find out just what went wrong.
TVGuide.com: Kathy, when did you start feeling that you were ready to leave?
Kathy Sleckman: That would have been when the natives took us in on the boat.
TVGuide.com: Right from the beginning, eh?
Kathy: [Laughs] Well, I can’t say right from the beginning. It was a whole combination of things. The tribe I was put on [was very difficult]. If I had not made friends with Chet and Tracy, I do not know what I would have done. We were completely separated and put in a box and prejudged before the game ever began. It was a struggle from day one to even give this game a shot like I wanted to. Mother Nature kicked my butt horribly and I just started going to a bad place mentally. [It was as if Jonathan] Penner’s knee infection got into my brain.
TVGuide.com: Was the reality of the show that far off from what you expected?
Kathy: Yes. When you are watching it on TV, you see it rain for 10 seconds, not realizing it’s 8 to 10 hours of constant pummeling. The physical part, as far as keeping my strength up, was good. Mentally, it just blew me away.

seattlepi.nwsource.com