Belief Networks Beefs Up Lingospot

August 14, 2009

Back in May we wrote about Lingospot, http://www.lingospot.com/, (see http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/05/09/lingospot-in-text-content-discovery-means-auto-linking/) and its in-text auto-linking Discovery Bubbles. We tested the Lingospot set up at Forbes.com and didn’t find it very useful, though it seemed promising. We just got a pointer that a product put out by Belief Networks has improved the service of real-time personalized recommendation. Rather than bubbles, the suggestions are displayed in a one-line “Like This Story?” banner at the top of the page. You can check out Belief’s service at Charleston, S.C., news aggregator, The Digitel (http://thedigitel.com/). We like it because it doesn’t block the text that we’re trying to read. Looks like auto-recommendations are much improved. A happy quack to Belief Systems.

Jessica Bratcher, August 14, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Online (general), Real time search

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2 Responses to “Belief Networks Beefs Up Lingospot”

Nikos Iatropoulos on August 15th, 2009 7:58 pm

Thanks for the great reporting on auto-recommendation engines! As you pointed out, the Forbes Lingospot implementation is primarily in-text, but it is not only a bubble implementation. Clicking on a topic actually takes you to a topic page with information on that topic.

A slightly different implementation, with no bubble, can be seen on the Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2112734.html
Again, clicking on individual topics (such as David Wright) will take you to a topic page, allowing you to discover more content about that topic. However, this implementation also has two of our article recommendation tools. They can be seen under the “Related on sacbee.com” and “From around the web” labels. The sources that are searched for the latter are actually controlled by the publisher, meaning that SacBee can chose the entire content web, or a combination of sites that they find most useful.

I would be happy to provide you or any of your readers with additional information on our services.

Thanks again for the great reporting!

Nikos Iatropoulos
CEO, Lingospot.
Nikos Iatropoulos on August 22nd, 2009 3:48 pm

Sharon, thanks for pointing out that the above link has expired. Here is the permanent link to the story:

http://www.sacbee.com/859/story/2117002.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles

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