It's finally happened. After many long hours and much facial hair madness (featured in the LA Times), a beta version of the Powerset search engine is now live at powerset.com. I've been working at Powerset for over a year now, and it's great to see this come to fruition. We had a launch party on Thursday. And I think a good time was had by all. (Okay, maybe not all. There was one poor fellow doubled over a bench outside, vomitting. But certainly most.) Now it's back to the trenches (or, as the Dutch say, terug aan de slag).