On: Show HN: Summarize webpages in seconds (inside the browser)

[rzh]

Impressed by the bookmarklet. How does the summarizer work? Is the Gremlin technology patented? :)

[tdr → rzh]

Well, web startups don't work that way.

The workflow is:

    listens for news-highlighting requests

    gets each and every webpage/feed

    detects the main content

    processes the content and pinpoints the relevant sentences from each news article

    creates a new enhanced webpage/feed containing the color-highlighted relevant bits

    sends the results to your browser (webpages) or gives them to your RSS Reader

The hard-lifting is done by a semantic component built in-house.