Media exposure is instrumental in raising capital for a company. And lack of capital could mean the death of a company and in this case a superior product. Williams claims that Hakia is a far superior product to Powerset, yet powerset has been the natural language search engine that has been receiving all the buzz.
A merit based economy seems to be the most fruitful future and a bias towards silicon valley companies could be harmful

Now, if, for a moment, you presume that it is true, or even *possibly* true that Hakia is the superior service and technology, or if you even assume that Hakia is just equivalent to Powerset, why would Powerset be so continuously celebrated while Hakia is overshadowed?

The only answer I can come up with is that the west coast is such an echo chamber that very little sound gets in or out. And so it must be shocking when a New York company develops a technology that seems to beat the pants off something that should be pure Silicon Valley. Just a thought.

In any case, it seems, for the record, worth noting that we have the clear leader in natural language processing and search technology right here. And, as an admitted New York partisan, after a while it does get a little annoying to hear such continued fawning over a west coast company that is very likely, at the end of the day, just another Silicon Valley also-ran.