Sensebot is a new search engine that takes results from Google and Yahoo! and summarizes them into one concise digest on the topic of your query.

The idea is to help the searcher get a better grasp of what the relevant term is about. In this way he or she does not have to go through a large number of web pages with incomprehensible expert definitions (or any definitions at all).

Search result digests

Sensebot puts it this way: “Wouldn?t you rather click on one link and receive a concise summary, a digest on the phenomenon of [for example] the dot-com bubble, compiled from the top most relevant pages on the subject?”

If you are writing an article or a term paper you can use Sensebot to get an overview of the topic, and to identify the most relevant online resources.

Not perfect, but useful

Sensebot admits that its summaries will be far from perfect: “[It] would be unrealistic to expect SensBot to match a summary prepared by a human expert… However, we believe that even less than perfect summaries may be of great help for Internet users, and would be preferable to numerous links to Web pages.”

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