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Boxxet, a Tool for Automatic Webpage Generation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the missing-the-days-of-notepad-and-mnt-dew dept.

tkajstura writes "New Scientist is reporting on 'a new tool [called Boxxet that] offers to create websites on any subject, allowing web surfers to sit back, relax and watch a virtual space automatically fill up with relevant news stories, blog posts, maps and photos.' It uses an algorithm based on unique word count to filter an index and integrate relevant subject information into the page, called a 'Boxxet.' The tool will first be available by invitation only, opening to the general public by the end of April 2006."

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  1. Example result? by NitroWolf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone have an example page that is a result of this alogrithm? The article is a little sparse on details or functionality, and you can't see anything if you go to the website.

    From what I've read, I've tried to come up with stuff that I'd put in the first 5 links to give to the site, and I'm having trouble. I don't necessarily like to view the same things or same types of things from day to day, so I'm not sure how useful that'd be...

  2. More junk websites with adverts by zubernerd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can just see this program being used to "create" content to push more advertising. Just what we need more of, websites that have recycled content put online for ad revenue.

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  3. Google? by DoninIN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't that what a search engine does? You type in a phrase and it finds things like that and sends you a web page?

  4. This is an affiliate persons wet dream by CitznFish · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and a nightmare for search engines. Hopefully there will be a way to detect boxxet pages and purge them, or at least show them seperately from relative content. Going from a search result link to another link full of partial information will be frustrating for many users and only benefits those who are makign aliving off of google ads, affiliates, etc.

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  5. So, this is simply... by Zadaz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Taking something like

    news.google.com -> Personalize -> Save Page as...

    Except automated?

    I guess sometimes the simple ideas are the best one.

    Except when they're just dumb.

  6. Copyright issues? by zubinjdalal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be interesting to see how much information Boxxet pulls off other sites and how it represents this as useful information without broaching copyrights.

  7. Re:Of course! by hyfe · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Urg, how many times have you read that meme? .. and you still didn't get the gist of it?!

    The point is to supply two premises which does does not lead the conclusion 4, and leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure 3.. you know, as a horrible, horrible business plan.

    In your point however, premise 1 and premise 2 certainly leads to conclusion 4, leaving step 3 totally f*cking uneccesary.. and as a plan it thus actually makes sense (although it may or may not be doable, but that's for the feasibility analysis to discover :))

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  8. Re:Dubious Phlisophy by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No the number of posters is growing very quickly, but the number posting new information grows very slowly. So they get gradually drowned out by the ever rising tide of cliches, plagiarism, tedious restatements of conventional wisdom with no original additions and total batshit bugfuck crazy gibberish.

    I can't believe you could read /. regularly and find it a hard concept.

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