Do you want to know how many wives King Henry Viii had? Or want to see the paintings by Salvador Dali? Powerset.com unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google.

With Powerset users find detailed answers to questions rather than isolated links. It currently search wikipedia as a trail showcase by putting around 2.5 million english language wikipedia entries to its own computers. I tried my hand with “paintings by Salvador Dali?” what I got are different painting images of Salvador Dali, which is really a wonderful experience. Welcome Semantic web technology.