SenseBot represents a new type of Search Engine that delivers a summary in response to your search query instead of a collection of links to Web pages. SenseBot takes top results returned by one of the major Web search engines and summarizes them. 

Why should you use SenseBot? Here’s an example:

Imagine that you are not familiar with the concept of the dot-com bubble, and got curious about it. You type “dot-com bubble” into your favorite search engine and get back a dozen links with some context around them. Alas, glancing over the context does not really give you a good idea of what the dot-com bubble was, or form an opinion on it. So you start clicking on the links, and soon realize that some of the pages presume that you are familiar with the subject; others are too shallow; or biased; or just aggregate links to other resources instead of answering your question. By the time you finally understand what the dot-com bubble was, you’ve clicked on too many links and sifted through too much redundant information. Wouldn’t you rather click on one link and receive a concise summary, a digest on the phenomenon of the dot-com bubble, compiled from the top most relevant pages on the subject?

Enter SenseBot, which does exactly that – builds a summary of the top pages returned by the search engine. After looking at the summary, you would be able to get a good idea about the dot-com bubble (hopefully enough to maintain a conversation about it), understand the dot-com model and notice a few key stages in it, and also see which of the sources about it are worthy should you decide to dig deeper. Note that SenseBot will drop the sources that are not heavy on the content related to your topic – no matter how high they were ranked by major search engines.

What are your next steps, SenseBot?

“We are currently in Beta, analyzing different types of searches and working on further improvement of the quality of the summaries. We are also exploring some vertical search areas. We believe that the summaries can get even more relevant and readable if SenseBot is integrated with a vertical search engine targeting a particular subject field, or a Web directory where users navigate to a specific area, thus narrowing down the subject of their query. We also anticipate that the advent of Semantic Web will allow SenseBot to get a more accurate identification of the type of Web pages, thus decreasing the amount of “noise” in the content, and improving the quality of generated summaries.”

“We are open to partnerships in these areas.”

Any Vertical search engines interested?

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