Some time ago, I wrote a review about Wize, and how its aggregation of reviews just made it a breeze to use. Summize just takes that model – and turns it into something even more user friendly by providing quick charts that allow you to see how good or bad a product is without actually having to read a single review!
What it does is crawls the web, blogs, and review sites like Amazon,and aggregates up user opinions. When you type in a search query, Summize puts together a tabulation of positive and negative reviews on a standard 5 point scale on a chart which looks like this…
…now wasn’t that easy? In one chart, you’ve gotten the summary of 371 reviews!
If you need more details, you can of course drill down and read the full reviews and get your concerns addressed. You can also add in your own review and opinion about the product if you like. Currently Summize works for books, movies, music, electronics, toys
Use it properly and you’ll find that you’ve…
- Saved a bundle of time
- Spared yourself the ‘review fatigue’ of skimming through one review at a time
- and most importantly – made an informed decision about a product
Next time you need an opinion (or a few hundred of them), try out Summize.
Bonus Links:
- Rotten Tomatoes: My time favorite professional movie review aggregation site
- Metacritic: Another good professional review aggregation site for books, movies, TV and more
April 20th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Nice find James. Separating the good from the bad will make many people’s life easier.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
This is IMO the perfect example of mass stupidity, of mass subversion. What do I care if 99% of “sentiments” are positive or negative? I’m not a poll agency, I’m a human being who likes or dislikes independently, I tend to believe so and I tend to to remain so!
This said, exchanging opinions is excellent, of course, but opinions, not stats!
April 28th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Transcontinental – the stats are compiled from opinions, and nothing more but a summary of them. You can drill down to read the opinions if you like, but I find a quick summary very useful indeed.