Is there a service which will let me create a snippet of a webpage

Question

I am looking for a way to get the essence or the most important aspect of a webpage? If I provide a URL, is there any external service which can accomplish this? I am not looking for snap.com like service as it provides a snapshot.

I might be willing to even implement such a system on my own. For beginning I do not want to put excessive effort, but rather would love to able to get some basic results. Are there any thoughts on how I may approach this problem?

Answer 1

Were you thinking of something like IE 8's WebSlices?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/features/web-slices.aspx

Answer 2

By snippet, do you mean like a quote that sums up the entire page you want to link to?

So if snap.com isn't a fancy, what about the entire page? For verbosity's sake? You could try out BackupURL if you want like a cache of the entire page of the site instead just a snapshot of a portion of it.

Answer 3

You can try Yahoo's Term extraction service