Summarises search content and has already attracted big gun investment
A teenager from London has designed a new iPhone app which summarises the content of web pages.
Nick D’Aloisio came up with Summly when he was studying for exams and going through search results on Google.
He found the process inefficient, and Google’s pop up image preview of a page not enough to determine whether he should click through to a search result.
Summly provides a content summary of search results, so you can get a quick snapshot of the most relevant information relating to a story instantly.
Billed as a “simpler way to browse and search the webâ€, the app works best with news and review content â€" information as opposed to narrative pages.
The developer boasts: “Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have tested Summly’s patent pending summarisation technology, demonstrating that it outperforms the highest academically published results by a factor of up to 30%.â€
“Summly’s technology is state-of-the-art and yields extremely accurate and precise results through AI, Machine Learning and Ontology techniques.â€
In an earlier form known as TrimIt, the app clocked up over 100,000 downloads and caught the eye of investment firm Horizons Ventures, which was an early backer of the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Siri.
Horizons Ventures sank some $250,000 into Summly, which was released the week before Christmas and is now on version 1.01.
The app is a free download and requires iOS 4.3 or better. If you want to give it a whirl, you can grab it here [1] .
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