Readwriteweb two days before has reviews on Summize - Enhancing search with Heatmaps. Summize is a search engine commonly known for shopping. A heatmap is a visualization technique by which they use colors to display complex information.
In Summize, they aggregate various reviews and oppinions and use a band of colors to represent the weekness and the stongest levels of a product. They use a spectrum of colours from red to green where the negatives are marked in red, positives in green and other opnions in various colors.

The opinions are shown on mouse over of the image. Likewise, Wize is a also a product search engine which gives unique rankings for each product.

Here you can see Wize rankings for each products. This useful information helps users in taking better decisions in the time of purchase.
Mark
SEO Tags : Wize, Summize, Heatmaps, Product search engines
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