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"Unlike article extraction, it doesn’t seem anyone anywhere has ever put a lot of thought into getting thumbnails out of a website."

Incorrect. Diffbot does a visual analysis of the page to determine the best thumbnail.

[edit: I also get the impression that Prismatic does intelligent grokking of the thumbnail image, especially because I know the team, but I'm not aware of anything they published about their methodology.]



Wasn't aware of that when writing the post. Thanks for the suggestion :)




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