edit: Jason has written a similar article about Powerset and what he would do as CEO over at calcanis.com. I thoroughly recommend the read!
The search engine space hasn’t had many new large entrants in the past few years (if you exclude Microsoft’s no-brainer of Live Search) but now there seems to be a slew of new contenders. Mahalo (one of Jason 
Calacanis’ projects that I’ve posted about a few times), and now Powerset; an interesting project that claims to use natural language semantics to interpret your search question and provide fast and accurate results.
Currently this is limited by its source material (wikipedia), and so the searches may only be factual in nature, so let’s take a look and figure out how well this thing does against Google (and for novelty), Mahalo.
So… some search questions. Seeing as Powerset requires factual based questions, to be fair, all will be factual in nature.
