Auto-Summarizing a webpage into one or two words.

[Louis]

I'm looking for a tool that can quickly anaylze a list of webpages and
spit out a couple words to describe the site. I will be using it for a
project I'm working on http://www.pageloft.com. Bascially, my project
queries Yahoo and Google's API to find relevent pages and cluster them
together onto a page. I personally think it's pretty cool. The only
problem is I can't figure out a way to make neat, short titles for each
link instead of the ugly domain name links.

I'm sure there has to be something out there. Maybe in the SEO world.
If anybody knows of something or has experience please post. I've
search google for about an hour before nearly giving up.

Best Regards,
Louis

[A. C. Gelwicks]

Why not try pulling the meta tag <description> from the page. That
should give you a good idea of the page content...that is as long as
the page owner has bothered to create quality tags.

[mylene]

On 6/17/05, A. C. Gelwicks <agel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not try pulling the meta tag <description> from the page. That
> should give you a good idea of the page content...that is as long as
> the page owner has bothered to create quality tags.
>

And that should give you a good hint on the overall quality - I think.


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[Edward Vielmetti at Socialtext]

You might pull details from del.icio.us - the titles
that people give pages are generally pretty good.

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[Mike Brown]

Copernic makes a tool called Summarizer (catchy, no?) that seems to do
what you want: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/summarizer/index.html

T'ain't free, though. I've never tried it.