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>Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice When I read the headline, I imagined a service that crawled forums and discussion boards and used NLP to determine us

by dictum 13y ago

>Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice When I read the headline, I imagined a service that crawled forums and discussion boards and used NLP to determine useful shopping advice. If that happened, all those non-slept nights spent battling people who were wrong on the Internet would finally pay off. (http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/)

compare 13y ago
That's exactly what we do. 50,000+ comparison reviews already analyzed, in 600+ categories. Email us for a beta invite.
- incision 13y ago
  How do relationships with the sources referenced work? Is consent given? I can certainly imagine some valuable sources politely declining to be scraped.
  - compare 13y ago
    Think of it as a search engine, like Google.
bobsil1 13y ago
Arro does something similar (I'm a founder). Scan a product's barcode, it analyzes several million reviews and shows better choices: http://arroapp.com http://arroapp.com
- marianne_navada 13y ago
  Love the idea. I found myself spending an hour at a target aisle rereading the reviews I compiled for a DSLR.
  - bobsil1 13y ago
    Awesome, thanks! That's our exact use case :) Any suggestions, please let me know, or send via the feedback tab.