Pluriblog

We are pleased to announce today the launch of our very first product.

Over the last year, we have built a technology that can automatically summarize user reviews on the web. It uses novel artificial intelligence to take a webpage filled with reviews and boil it down into just a couple of fluent sentences. You can think of it as an automated Zagat-style brain for user reviews.

Today we are releasing a Firefox extension that applies our summary engine to reviews on Amazon. With the extension installed, all you have to do is visit any Amazon webpage that has a lot of reviews. Our technology will go to work behind the scenes and summarize all those reviews down into a couple of lines.

(At the moment, the extension only works for electronics items, but we’re adding new product categories all the time.)

To see a quick demo, take a look at our screencast. Full details, of course, are available on our home page.

We think we’ve come up with an interesting new approach to dealing with information overload. By using summary instead of search, we hope we can help people make better sense of opinions on the internet. Rather than filtering information and throwing out potentially useful opinions, our technology synthesizes all the available information.

Our belief in this approach is so central to our identity that we’ve chosen the name “Pluribo”. It is inspired by the phrase “e pluribus unum”, which means “out of many, one.”

So please take Pluribo for a spin. We look forward to hearing your feedback!