Comments on: Review: Summize

By: Jay Virdy

Jay Virdy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:21:17 +0000

Thanks for the detailed writeup, Paul (and for the helpful feedback, Mike S., Andrew, Brandon, Justin above).

We launched a new version of Summize earlier this week which no longer treats all blog posts the same. Our goal is to help people locate the absolute best reviews out there without having to slog through tons of reviews. Here’s an update of the Summize Vudu page with the latest changes:

http://www.summize.com/product/vudu-box/vudu–inc/b000vemjfy

Note that this page is algorithmically created using our Sentiment Engine technology. (I’ll be happy to walk you through our technology if you are interested.) We have more enhancements in the pipeline that will address “review fatigue” problem as well as “blogger discovery” problem for users.

Again, thanks for the post.

Jay Virdy
CEO
Summize, Inc.

By: Dilip P

Dilip P — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:43:18 +0000

I am getting the ad as well.. It seems to be timed.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:29:07 +0000

I got one pop up, http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/product.do?id=11039&buspart=directresponsedisplay

Not sure what it was, but only got it once. Doesn’t pop up right away though- and worryingly in Firefox 2 on Windows, not in IE 6.

By: Grant Hodgeon

Grant Hodgeon — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:24:24 +0000

I also got the ad, I tried reproducing it, incase it was simply a case of my own system doing the dirty, but seen as others have mentioned it too….

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:58:31 +0000

Hrm, I’ve been looking into this but I can’t reproduce it.. any more info guys?

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:44:32 +0000

Yep, an ad open after i visited your site. I hope you site didn’t get hacked.

By: Justin Cady

Justin Cady — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:05:35 +0000

I think it is a good idea, but if it linked the word ‘wretched’ is linked to your review than it does not do anything for me that I cannot do myself. I will still have to check each review individually to see what was actually said. If issues like that can be worked out it could be a great tool, but for now nothing beats a little time and Google.

By: Brendan Falkowski

Brendan Falkowski — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:31:48 +0000

If all the search engines went down, I'd head for the bomb shelter. But seriously, Amazon is a good place to start looking for product reviews. The best source is usually the specialty sites: who doesn't love preaching to the choir.

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:42:03 +0000

I like Amazon's system pretty well on its own. Then I actually read individual reviews, on Amazon or formal review sites. I never look at a number and base anything on that. So, I don't know how useful this will be for me unless they are really good at collecting every last review on the internet of a product. I suppose it will be really nice if someday all reviews are done with microformats to identify them as such. Then you could have a search engine that just picked out reviews for whatever you're searching for, display an aggregate rating, and so on.

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:49:54 +0000

I somehow got this ad after this page loaded. Came here from google reader, and the ad opened about 30 seconds or so later.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=71ec0up&s=1

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:34:59 +0000

That’s pretty cool, I may use this in the future. I typically Google my way to reviews, and sometimes check out the ones at Newegg or Amazon for any specific product. I also try to ask friends that own it too.