Universal Summarizer

I tried 5 different URLs to mainly text documents, and it said "no summary available" for all of them. Is it the hug of death, or am I doing something wrong? I'm a Kagi subscriber, logged in and everything.

Unlikely, it does not seem to handle foreign languages very well.

I asked it to summarize the transcript for a podcast about an episode of Star Trek. One minor issue in grammar, but otherwise, it does a remarkable job of making a summary:

> In the Star Trek episode "The Cage", Captain Pike is held captive by a race of advanced televisions. He is offered a life of luxury in a cage, but he realizes that this is not the life he wants and manages to escape. The televisions watch everything on TV and have become too voyeuristic and passive. At the end of the episode, Pike makes the right choice and is able to see the difference between the falsehood of the fantasy and the difficult but more acceptable reality. This episode highlights the importance of exploration and being better than oneself, and is a reminder of the dangers of becoming too passive and voyeuristic. It also shows how technology can be used to create illusions and how these illusions can be used to manipulate people.

Fwiw I use AndiSearch and they already have a great summarizer integrated directly into search results that they launched last week.

There is a Summarize button on every result card that can show a summary. The summaries are much faster. And they are clearly much higher quality.

Unlike Kagi, they don't spam every HN post that mentions search with shill comments. And unlike Kagi, it is free and anyone can use it. It does not require login, so you can use it anonymously. This looks like a rushed attempt to copy the AndiSearch summary feature.

I already find that the summaries on AndiSearch are so good that I can use it to filter which articles I need to read. The Reader mode is also very good.

If you like this, I'd recommend comparing it. You can paste in a url and get a summary and reader mode for it. I find searching for the title works better. I haven't seen it posted here yet.

https://andisearch.com/

Not sure what to make of its summary of Moby Dick (as presented in the Project Gutenberg text version) -- https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.gutenberg.org/f.... The summary is full of platitudes. I'm wondering how they were generated. Did they actually arise directly from the text itself or from outside commentary of Moby Dick that Kagi had ingested?

> The story follows the adventures of a whaling crew led by Captain Ahab, who is obsessed with hunting down a white whale named Moby Dick. The crew includes Queequeg, a harpooner from a distant island, and Starbuck, the first mate. Along the way, they encounter many dangers, including storms, sea monsters, and the wrath of Moby Dick himself. The story is a meditation on the power of nature, the dangers of obsession, and the importance of friendship and loyalty. The message of the story is that even in the face of great danger, it is possible to find courage and strength in friendship and loyalty.