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An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews

Posted by timothy on from the please-phrase-your-review-as-free-verse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is this a glimpse at the future of the Semantic Web? A new startup named Pluribo has developed a technology that can auto-summarize user reviews on the internet. It is a Firefox extension that can take a webpage filled with reviews and condense it down into a couple of sentences. Currently, it just works with Amazon electronics, but the potential seems incredible. Ars Technica took an in-depth look."

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  1. Quick. by Slashdot+Suxxors · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody fix this so it work's on /. Maybe then I'll RTFA.

  2. First Post by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our hot grits pouring overlords.

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Al Gores in Soviet Russia releasing Duke Nukem Forever, you insensitive clod!

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    All your Linux are belong to us Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to our heads.

    1)Stephen King is dead

    2)BSD is dying

    3)Profit!

    There. Fixed that for you.