The problem with many people, including myself, who surf the internet reading blog articles and news sites, is the sheer amount of information of which only a small percentage can be of interest. Internet research has solved the problem of finding all kinds of information for any need, but this has not led to finding the most useful information.
The risk is to waste energy by reading texts and long articles that deal only marginally with the topic sought or that in any case do not exhaust the possibility of knowing something more.
By reading a blog like this, you can easily find your way around using the search field or scrolling through the pages by categories.
For those who manage sites such as Navigaweb.net but also for those who organize much larger and rich in information web portals, it is impossible to uniquely identify some topics that, therefore, are cataloged according to a criterion that may not be understood by the reader .
We must also consider the massive presence of spam on the internet, of pages created only to advertise, perhaps with deceptive titles.
One of the best ways to find your way around and manage so much information is to read summaries and summaries of articles, guides and web pages so you can quickly move on to something else if you don't find what you need.
Obviously these summaries can be automatically generated by exploiting some very useful web applications to lighten and synthesize the information found on the internet .
The best methods to create text summaries and web page summaries are:
1) Summarizer is the best and the simplest of all: just copy and paste a text as long as you want and choose to generate a summary of 150, 250 or 500 words.
Unfortunately, for now, it only supports the English language.
2) NelSenso Summazer offers a tool to create summaries of texts or web pages automatically.
You just have to choose whether to use the stemming, or the use of synonyms and how much to synthesize, if 50% more or less.
3) Microsoft Word, the Office program , automatically generates the summary of a text, extracting the most important parts according to him.
If you have Microsoft Word you can find the Automatic Sunto mode in the Tools menu.
In the Percentage box you can choose the length of the summary with respect to the original text.
You can then copy and paste a web page or a text document into a Word sheet and automatically summarize it.
The generated summary is based on the keywords named in the article and on the context in which they are found and the text considered most important is extracted and displayed in a separate window.
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4) Another way to see summaries of articles concerning a certain topic are the sites that aggregate news on the internet.
I had already talked about these news aggregators, online newspapers and blogs, pointing out how, among them, they were decent sites like Google News.
5) Geneio is a small tool to be installed on the computer that scans the web history and displays the contents that, according to the history of internet browsing, should be of most interest.
In about 10 minutes he should create a personalized web page with the most interesting topics, in a personalized way .
I must really recommend a test by Geneio because, in the end, he manages to provide a home page similar to that of Repubblica, which summarizes and brings the links to the most interesting current news (in my test it was really accurate) for a person.
6) A similar service can also be found for Twitter and is called Paper.ly .
This online service scans the tweets of the people you follow on the social network and extracts the most interesting news, creating a virtual newspaper page.
7) Feedly is a web application for iPhone and Android that allows you to collect the feeds of the sites that interest us in order to read them quickly.
8) As already reported in the past, I remember the site with which you can have a glance on a page of all the news of the last hour and the main news of today .
If you know of other ways to summarize news on the internet and written texts, let them know.
