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Use Wikipedia More Effciently Using Powerset | A Microsoft Online Tool

Searching through Wikipedia is often very cumbersome. One has to type the exact keyword or the title of the page being searched. So this often makes it a little useless. The other thing is that Wikipedia is very slow in loading.... I mean in slow connections. So this also is a setback. Powerset helps you to overcome these setbacks.

What is Powerset??

Powerset is a online search engine hosted by Microsoft. To be more specific it is a Wikipedia search engine and this helps people to navigate through the Wikipedia article easily even by typing long keywords which is not possible in Wikipedia.

The next feature is its unique feature of listing the information. Let me tell you about this by giving an example, if you enter "Google" in the search box you will get a intro to the article and then it will give you a tabular column. In this tabular column there will be related information about Google like 1) Used 2) Offered 3) Acquired. The first one means info about the things used by Google. The second one, in a similar way gives you the results about the thing that are offered by Google. The third one tells about the things that are acquired by the Google. This helps you to analyse the Wikipedia articles more efficiently.

Moving on to the next feature, The Search Panel: After you enter into the Wikipedia article you will get a panel on the right side. Here you can see the contents of the wikipedia page. This panel remains on the window screen even while scrolling to help users for easy navigation.

You can also search for the facts that are present in the page by going to the "factz" tab at the top. You get all the facts arranged in a tag like structure. You can look for these facts in the articles by clicking on them. For your easy navigation navigation you can set the panel to the option "show facts".

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So, this feature really helps you to get a thorough view of Wikipedia so much that you may not have got it in the Wikipedia itself!!!

Note: When you search for anything in Bing then you will get all your keywords highlighted which does not happen usually.

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