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Review Index – One Stop Shop for all Reviews & Ratings

by Prasanna Manjunatha

The Review Index is a Bengaluru based Startup working towards enabling the user’s to shortlist a product by presenting them reviews & rating’s by intelligently mining all the existing reviews about the product in the Internet. Review Index started their operations in August 2016 & the Beta version of the product was launched in January 2017. Review Index is a brainchild of 2 ex Google employees, Dyuti & Abhishek.
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Below are few problems an average consumer will come across before making a decision to purchase a product,
  1. too many choices and sites with too much content
  2. differentiating genuine content from spam
  3. dealing with disparity in opinion
For the above reasons, the process of online research and decision making becomes extremely tedious and overwhelming. Review Index aims to simplify this process not just by bringing together all specs, price, reviews under one roof, but also by also summarizing reviews (and other forms of unstructured opinion) for the end user.
The Review Index is a discovery and research destination for gadgets and electronics that aims to simplify the online product research process by mining opinion and reviews from across different sources on the internet. Reviews are then presented as an unified, unbiased, feature-wise summary scorecard of the aggregate opinion to the end user. A search based discovery engine helps users discover products based on their high level needs.

Review Index heavily leverages cutting edge machine learning algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks to –

  1. aggregate and reconcile reviews from relevant, popular sources
  2. detect fine grained topics and sentiment in the reviews
  3. bring out the pros/cons
  4. identify and remove spam / fraudulent content

 

Review Index product

Review Index recently launched a public beta with a consumer-facing (mobile friendly) website thereviewindex.com, with 6 categories – Mobiles, Speakers, and Televisions, Washing Machines, Routers & Microwaves – for Indian consumers. Neural network based algorithms aggregate and reconcile reviews across popular online stores and create feature wise summaries of the opinion.Review Index search engine enables users to discover the right products for their high level requirements. A user can also drill deeper to view the feature-wise rating, summary, pros/cons, user comment snippets (all derived from reviews) and finally compare prices across all stores to conclude the decision making process.  Over the course of next couple of months,Review Index plans to expand to include all major appliances and electronics.

About the author

Prasanna Manjunatha is a Software Consultant and Tech Blogger based out of Toronto, Canada.