Big Mouth Media has a good story on the increasingly competitive world of search engines. It turns out that Sandhill Road VCs are willing to bet that there can be more than one player in the search engine market.

Powerset is a start up that is promoting a natural English search engine solution. Here is what the company says about their efforts:

Powerset is a Silicon Valley company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing.

Our unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search.

By making search more natural and intuitive, Powerset is fundamentally changing how we search the web, and delivering higher quality results.

Powerset is currently operating in semi-stealth mode. Please check back in the near future for more information about the company and its products.

Why are VCs so convinced that Google will lose some market share? The answer is simple - history. Sooner or later all leading products lose their market dominance. Whether or not it is time for Google to lose its share is not the point. Some day it will.

What do you think? Is it time to invest in a Google competitior?