Back in 1999, when most of the 'net was still using Altavista to search the Web, a few lucky souls had stumbled upon Google.

On September 21, 1999, the upstart search engine stripped the word "beta" from its search engine and the rest is history.

Now it's anybody's guess if the subject of this post, PowerSet will fizzle or take off like a rocket, but you (probably) heard about it here first.

They haven't launched even a public beta yet, but if you want to get in on the ground floor of testing what might be the coolest search app released this millennium, head on over and sign up for their mailing list.

(P.S. I would be much obliged if anyone has an invite code to send my way!)