Say hello to Primal: semantics-driven content discovery.
This morning I read How Europe turned its back on humanity, a damning opinion piece in Aljazeera on Europe’s hypocritical response to the refugee crisis:
Of the 10 links chosen by Primal, all bar one (the last) are directly related to the original article. Pretty good performance.
The same technology is also available for your browser’s toolbar: if you like an article, with one click Primal will fetch some more.
It’s still in beta, only works in English and I don’t yet see how many sources it scours … but it gives a glimpse of the future of user-driven algorithmic content discovery.
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