In this sense, it is similar to contextual recommendation systems like Sphere, OutBrain, or BlogRovr, which all append recommended links at the end of blog posts or news articles using a variety of methods.
It is more like a contextual recommendation system for the blogs invited to participate.
He calls Zemanta "adwords for content creators" and sees them opening up this contextual recommendation engine to other web apps and services that content creators might like to add into their posts at the time of creation.
"The final endgame will be intelligent agents making informed, contextual recommendations for users' queries and content providers paying a percentage for such highly targeted lead generation.
The presence of contextual recommendations of the element's types and the relations that may occur between the elements of given types (i.e., defined in the ontology) is an important feature of a user-friendly semantic search system.
The difference, according to Taboola CEO Adam Singolda, is that it's gone beyond just providing contextual recommendations to now also bringing in technology that it used to improve its video product and applying it to text articles.
There's also a predictive text feature, should you choose to go the old fashioned route and type things in by hand, along with contextual recommendations — like if you were to search for Apple, it'd try to pare down your results by recommending iPhone search results, Apple stock results, or Apple computer results.
As the bot landscape expands and bots improve to provide contextual recommendations, bots will move beyond basic tasks.
We describe system architecture, algorithms, interface and interactions followed by use-case and offline evaluations of the system, providing evidence of the benefits of our model based on similarities between the typical moods found in an artist's music, for contextual music recommendation.
Panop.com, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes software that produces contextual personalized recommendations to shoppers on the Internet.
AppTap, which powers personalized and contextual app recommendations, app search, and more has raised $4 million in funding led by Syncom Venture Partners, with New Atlantic Ventures participating.
