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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. 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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  2. 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?

  3. 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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