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The rumors accumulating more than the past couple of months were true: Microsoft has purchased natural-language lookup vendor Powerset for an undisclosed quantity.Microsoft announced the deal on July 1. Microsoft is organizing to use Powerset;s folks and technologies to “take Search to the next level by adding understanding of the Internet and meaning behind the words in searches and webpages,Office 2010 Upgrade Key,” according to a post on the Live Lookup blog.A lot more from that posting by Satya Nadella,Office Professional Plus 2010 Activation, Senior Vice President of Search, Portal and Advertising:“Powerset will join our core Lookup Relevance team,Office 2010 Standard Serial, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it organic language technologies that nicely complements other organic language processing technologies we have in Microsoft Research.”Some have taken to referring to Microsoft;s purchase of Powerset as a piece of Microsoft;s “Plan B” following the breakdown in acquisition talks between Microsoft and Yahoo.(I noticed Richard Sprague, Senior Director of Marketing in the Microsoft Research Incubation team,Microsoft Office 2010 Serial, hint via a blog post last week that his team had had some interesting interactions with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates just before Gates retired. Given Sprague;s areas of focus,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, perhaps he was referring to Powerset.)What do you think: Is the Powerset acquisition a good first move for Microsoft after the dissolution of the Yahoo deal?