gHacks technology news » summary http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Great Summary Summarizes Web Pages http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/20/great-summary-summarizes-web-pages/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/20/great-summary-summarizes-web-pages/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:49:59 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8426 Don’t have the time to read a long article on a web page? Then it might be worth to give the Great Summary service a try. The service extracts the most important sentences of a web page and provides them as a summary to the user.

It is pretty obvious that a computerized summary won’t be as good as one from a human. It might still be worth a try if you lack the time or will to read a longish article. A good test text was the CNN article “Five ways to keep Alzheimer’s away”. The expectation for that article was to be presented with a list of the five ways that can keep Alzheimer’s away.

It is up to the user to pick the amount of sentences that should be returned. It can range from 1 to 100. Trying to squeeze a long article in 1 or 2 sentences might fail more often that it would succeed. Selecting 5 or 10 sentences did not reveal the desired information of the Alzheimer article. It did list some of the recommendations but not all of them.

Even more disturbing was the inclusion of part of the footer links which clearly had nothing to do with the article. The problem here is obviously that the service is analyzing the whole page and not only the part that contains the article. Areas like the header, footer or menu should be exempt from the analysis to avoid the confusion.

A Firefox add-on is available for Great Summary as well. It adds an entry to the right-click menu which sends the page to Great Summary.

The service could be very interesting if the developers would improve the detection rate of the important parts of a web page further. They should also lay more emphasize on titles and lists because these usually contain important information.

Still: There is not much to lose here. If you are desperately needing a summary you might want to give Great Summary a try.

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If you are looking for new podcasts you might want to pay a visit to Odeo. They have a extensive Podcast directory featuring many categories like Tech, Politics and even Sex.

I always defended Bitcomet because it was my client of choice for a very long time. Just recently, thanks to comments from users here at ghacks, I have decided to switch bittorrent clients and use utorrent instead. I never came upon a faster client before.

Cloning hard drives is not that time consuming as it seems. How to clone your hard drives walks you step by step through the process.

Bang Howdy is a free tactical multiplayer game that plays in the wild wild west. You can choose to play different game modes and the developers constantly add new content to it.

The Music and Movie industry try everything to prevent their customers from making backups from their purchased DVD`s. This article explains how it is easily done.

Colonization was one of those games that I played excessively because it rocked. A great game which I personally think is even better than Civilization.

That is it for this week. I hope you like this little summary, remember to let me know what you think about this.

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