SenseBot, the search engine, uses a tool for delivering summaries of the results that appear after performing a search. It proves to be useful when a deluge of content is available on the Web from which choices have to be made and the user wants to make sense of it all. A FireFox plug-in has been provided by SenseBot that provides for summaries of any web page while integrating with Google search.

Two types of plug-ins have been made available. While one is the ‘Google Search Summary Plug-in’, which when a search is performed on Google, provides the user with the summary of the search results. Then there is the ‘Summariser plug-in’ that provides the summary of any webpage with the condition that there is enough content that the page holds, out of which a summary can be produced.

SearchBot’s webpage regarding the plug-in mentions:

You can download a free Firefox browser plug-in integrating SenseBot with your Google searches. You search as usual, and a text summary of the content of the search results is generated at the bottom of the Google results page.

Summarisation is probably an approach which will prove to be very effective in the near future, considering the rate at which the amount of data is increasing online.