MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and
chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.
01 July 2008
Pluribo A pretty cool Firefox extension a friend of mine developed. It creates instant plain-English summaries from the reviews in Amazon electronics items.
I don't understand why you get the "Pluribo is automatically scanning all the reviews: ..." line though. Surely the review data and generated summary is stored on Pluribo servers. The web site gives the impression that the algorithm doesn't run in real time - rather they crawl Amazon on a weekly basis. What's the animation for?
As far as I know, you are right. I think the animation is what it displays as it is loading the pre-computed data. I've e-mailed Samidh for a better explanation.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
