I am sure you will hear from the lawyers soon enough. If you have the ethics to do that, I really wonder what other IP or proprietary information you have stolen for your use.

For more updates check:

http://www.pixelfactor.org

“I just got an email about your new site. My name is XYZ , I”m the publisher of XYZ.com and I noticed you guys are linking to our camcorder reviews - thank you! I would also like to suggest one of our other sites, XYZ2.com, which uses the same high quality standards for reviewing digital cameras as we use for reviewing camcorders. Good luck”

Jcar - i think it will answer your question and suggest that it is symbiotic relationship.

-Amiz

First, the benefits go to the user. For a person who is not really used to hi-tech choosing a laptop can be quite difficult. A lot of buyers on the net may ask themselves “Is this what I need ?” “Is this a good product” and the problem on the net is that you can’t ask an adviser to help you in your choicie. Few comparators have trustfull and interesting comments on products so if one of them is aggregating all the reviews to tell the visitors wich products are considered as the best ones than that’s a pretty good service and a lot of people would see the benefits.

Secondly when you click on a review you are redirected on it (although you have a top bar with viewscore options). That means that Viewscore generates trafic for them (at least one page view). And most of the site editing content on the net expect a lot of these page views because their business is based on selling ads. The more page views they have the more ads they can sell. So I guess that sort of a way they get some benefits from it.

Finally if you’re against the use of content coming from over website then what about Netvibes ? WebWag ? My Yahoo ? MSN Live ? Those sites are making money by providing contents coming from other websites….

Excuse me for all the mistakes I must have made. I’m french and still working on my english. I really think they have something here and I’d like to know more about the stats…. I doubt that the other companies will look at it saying “Oh just another web 2.0 site…”

TechCrunch points to ViewScore, a site which aggregates reviews and review metrics. The cool thing is that for reviews that don’t contain a metric (e.g. a star rating), the site infers one based on ’semantic analysis’.ViewScore has developed an inno…

ViewScore system doesn’t copy the content of the review, it just process it. In order to read the review the visitor is pointed to the real site, thus rewarding more traffic to the original reviewer.

On a side note - I know we’re all techies here and we all look for new technologies above all. But for the common user the technology is secondary to the content he gets. If viewscore, or any other site, would have a lousy backend but a good service that saves time and effort - that’s more then enough.

The thing is that once a couple of sites provide a similar - yet decent - service, the one that will become the popular is the one with the better marketing. Like it is for any product, real or online.

You have raised excellent question.

Let me start with a small question – isn’t that exactly what Google is doing in their organic search results?

And to be more ViewScore.com specific – Our TextScore technology is generating a reflecting score for each review,And that new score is our intellectual property; you can think of this as abstract of the review that we generated. http://www.viewscore.com/textscore.php

as you can see on this israeli price comparsion engine link:

http://tinyurl.com/kc7nd

All and all - quite usefull tool for online shopping, i would recommend it to my friends.

example:

http://tinyurl.com/ep4ez
Cheers,

Amiz