Yups that's true, It happened.
Microsoft announced plans to acquire
Powerset, a "natural search" firm that launched last year.
Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco, wrote Satya Nadella on Microsoft's
Live Search Blog. Nadella also said Powerset's natural language technology "nicely complements" existing language processing efforts at Microsoft.
Upon launch, Powerset was thought to be a viable "Google killer" because of its reported ability to gauge the
meaning of content. (It is currently testing these capabilities on Wikipedia.