A few days after the launching of Powerset, the semantic search engine for Wikipedia (but not only) we interviewed Lorenzo Thione, co-founder and product architect of Powerset, the Californian company which has achieved this important technological innovation in the field of Semantic Search Engines.

Before going into the  interview in which Lorenzo Thione explains in detail the work behind Powerset, how it runs and how it can improve the experience of online search users, I would like to briefly introduce his compelling career,  for  very specific reasons.

First of all, Lorenzo Thione, as you can guess from the name, is Italian and therefore doubly deserves our attention, because it shows what our compatriots

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