The Washington Post and Evri announce partnership
We’re very pleased to announce that The Washington Post and Evri have entered a partnership to offer our content browsing and discovery functionality on washingtonpost.com articles. The Evri widget will appear on all article pages on the site. (It will only appear on newly published articles, so it won’t be everywhere yet!) Our widget will suggest related articles from The Washington Post and separately from the rest of the web.
The Evri widget makes article recommendations based on Evri’s semantic understanding of how the people places and things in the article being read are connected to other people, places and things being discussed on the web. We think making content smarter this way, and connecting it to other content via what we like to call the Entity Web, is a big deal for the future of content discovery.
As our first major content publishing partner, we’re delighted that The Washington Post has selected Evri for this critical service for their readers. In the coming weeks, we’ll have additional announcements with new partners to share with you.
We’re also very grateful to the many bloggers and websites that have gone to the evri.com site, and launched one of our widgets on their sites. We’re adding new widgets frequently, and they’re very easy to install. In addition to article and topic recommendations our widgets recommend images and videos as well. Please visit the bloggers and partners page at evri.com to check out what we have available now. If you are a developer, please take a look at our API, which allows programmatic access to all of this good stuff.
Email me at steve@evri.com with any questions or comments.
February 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Yeah! This is awesome, I can’t wait to use this and I hope you guys will share in your blog some of the cooler content discovery stories for those of us who don’t read the Washington Post (I’m not a regular reader) but would be curious to hear how things are going. Looking forward to seeing more publisher partnerships for you guys soon – maybe even here in Seattle?
February 19th, 2009 at 6:27 am
So – I linked to Evri from the Washington Post, intrigued by the information display in the widget. Congratulations on a clear, understandable presentation of data.
It’s little unclear to me how you are building your datasets. There are many fairly obvious topics (HD Radio or HDTV, for example) that failed when I tried to search. I’ll take a look at your FAQ when I get a chance, but as a friendly suggestion, it might be good to put a blurb on the main page to inform users how the database is built.
Good luck with this! May you supplant Google!
February 24th, 2009 at 4:30 am
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July 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
What is evri really doing?
I went to the WP web site and discovered in links to other articles following the pattern below
http://www.evri.com/log/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F07%2F23%2FAR2009072301449.html
The link to other articles did not go to the article but went through evri’s server to get to the article.
This link did not directly bring up the article. Rather it brought up a log on screen. You could not see the article without going through that screen. Even though the article itself was freely available on the internet through through the article link and google news, evri made you log on to see the article. What has evri got to do with forcing people to log on and identify themselves to see articles that are otherwise freely accessible to anyone?
This is a big privacy issue. People here in Washington are sensitive to this and are awaiting the first news leak to analyze some public official’s news reading habbits, which will undoubedly be bad.
How does this link diversion and log on help the Post? All it does is divert people to Google News and other news sources ewhere the problem doesn’t exist.