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I tried the service and I am sorry to say that it is really just awful. I don't want to be mean, but it seems to pick a random sample of sentences. Great idea, poor execution.

Much of the media attention has probably been around the fact that he is 16. If Google engineers released this, they'd get laughed at.

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That seems to be the state of a lot of coverage on tech companies. Age first, service second, quality third.

That sounds great! I'm 17, where can I sign up to get 250k

Unfortunately, I have to agree that it's not very effective. Even using it on Wikipedia articles, on which it has likely been trained, doesn't yield impressive results. It would be more interesting if it worked well.

I use an enhanced version of the summarizer from Classifier4J (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) for http://demo.qontex.com/.

There is no public API to show the summaries, but if you can find a Wikipedia page it doesn't generate reasonable ads for I'd be very interested.

Eg random pages from today's front page: http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre...

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep...

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bri...

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