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Firefox addon summarizes Google search results
 
According to Dmitri Soubbotin of Sensebot, a text summary is most useful for informational queries, rather than navigational or transactional. Here’s a sample query for “Vladimir Nabokov” to give you an idea.

Through text mining of the results, Sensebot Summary creates a digest on the topic of the query. The idea is to save users time by giving them a quick answer, saving them the trouble of drilling into each individual result page.
 
Through text mining of the results, Sensebot Summary creates a digest on the topic of the query. The idea is to save users time by giving them a quick answer, saving them the trouble of drilling into each individual result page.
 
 
 
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