Our goal is to help people find and select what they really want to spend time reading. We feel that a summary is the perfect step between a title and the actual content and that it actually incentivizes people to read the whole thing once they're hooked by the summary.
The people that won't read the full article after reading the summary probably would have just bounced or skimmed the article extremely quickly.
You're right that there are probably certain types of contents that lend themselves to be summarized better than others. We're still figuring this one out by observing what our users and experimenting with what we summarize.
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Our goal is to help people find and select what they really want to spend time reading. We feel that a summary is the perfect step between a title and the actual content and that it actually incentivizes people to read the whole thing once they're hooked by the summary.
The people that won't read the full article after reading the summary probably would have just bounced or skimmed the article extremely quickly.
You're right that there are probably certain types of contents that lend themselves to be summarized better than others. We're still figuring this one out by observing what our users and experimenting with what we summarize.