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Topix.net: All news is local
MarketWatch, posted February 28, 2005
NYTimes.com And Topix.net Announce Content Relationship
Topix offers start-up, VC news sites
Topix Pushes MicroPublishing Forward
Topix deepens search in Silicon Valley with LinkSV
Best Tips of the Year
Topix.Net taps CooperKatz based upon blog relationship
Local Search Vendors: Names to Know
Topix.net named to EContent 100 -
Companies that matter most in the digital content industry
Topix.net, the Best News Site Online
Topix.net and Citysearch Partnership Points To Future Of Local Search
Topix: World domination, deal 2
Topix and Citysearch Play to Each Other's Strengths
Topix and Citysearch team up
Topix.net and Citysearch Announce Partnership
Topix, Citysearch Team for Local Content
RSS Feeds Hunger for More Ads
Topix.net Gets a Portal News Deal
Ask Jeeves adds new features
Also Monday, Jeeves announced a partnership with Palo Alto news search engine Topix.net. The deal is a significant boost for Topix, which launched officially just six months ago.
Ask Jeeves, Topix.net Deal to Boost Blog Visibility
Ask Jeeves personalises Web searches
MyJeeves "Social Search" and Topix.net
News search engine Topix.net gets even better
Topix.net explains new mix
You may have noticed that the new Topix.net has had some unusual stories leading it this week -- more crime and celebrity than the stories usually leading news sites and Google News. That's intentional -- to differentiate Topix from the competition, and, interestingly, try to spot national-quality stories before they hit the national media. Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta tell CyberJournalist.net a little more about how the site's new algorithms work: [more]
Topix -- Make the News Come to You
I never thought I'd say I like a news site as well or better than Google News, but it's true -- Topix.net is a terrific news resource. The folks over at Topix launched a new version of the site this week, with a new front page and a bunch of improved features. Topix crawls over 10,000 news sources (which makes Google's 4,500 pale in comparison), but that's not the best part: you can receive an RSS feed for just about anything on the site, whether it be a specific news topic, keyword search, or even your own zip code. Topix has an aggregated feed for every zip code in the country. If you're not into the RSS thing, Topix will mail you an alert based on your keyword search. Gary Price has more in a review at SearchDay. Topix really has the right idea.
Skrenta: Topix.Net New Features
The key nugget seems to be a much more sophisticated NewsRank algorithm. There are also some UI improvements, and I'm just amazed at the number of sources and feeds Topix provides.
Personalization, Classification and Staying Ahead of the Reader
Topix.net Improves
Google: Should You Search for a Better Deal? (mention)
Topix
Created by some of the founders of the Open Directory Project, Topix.net calls itself the Internet's largest news site. The Web site pulls together articles from more than 10,000 media outlets ranging from small-town papers to the BBC.
Topix.net Unveils Major Overhaul
I have been playing with the beta for a couple of weeks or so and I can tell you the upgraded site is phenomenal. Topix.net is becoming more and more useful every day, giving Google and MSN a run for their money.
Topix.net Ups Ante in News Aggregation
Watch out, Google News. A principal competitor in the automated news aggregator category, Topix.net, has debuted a redesign that significantly enhances its news offering. ...
Topix Upgrades News, Adds Email Alerts
Topix.net Gets Redesign
News search service adds alerts, RSS
Topix upgrades news, adds email alerts
Topix Gets Better
Topix makeover: Really nice new features
Topix.net Goes Live With New Look and Features
... But the main new feature, who should be adopt by other site, is the dynamic sub-menu. When you drill down in categories, the submenu of that category will reflect you visits. They also be reorder with your latest categories you have visited. Very smart feature!
Did you have your Topix today?
If you haven't used this news aggregator, now might be a good time to start. The navigation is significantly better on the left-hand side, and the way content is being sorted/filtered has definitely improved. ...
Topix.net and a new NewsRank
Topix does have some impressive technology. It's not at all easy to categorize and prioritize articles using content analysis, but Topix.net does a pretty good job. How do they do it? ...
Topix: New release improves timeliness, relevance
Small sites challenge big search engines
News on Demand
Topix.net delivers really local news The amazing thing about Topix is how it can distill news down to the smallest communities. [more]
Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta on How Blogs Amplify Traditional PR
nPost.com Interview with Rich Skrenta
Net Search Startups Brave Crowded Field
"World's Largest News Web Site"
News easy to find on Internet The Local pages at Topix.net can be useful not only for keeping up with all the news in your own community and nearby areas, but also for checking out what is happening where your child attends college, what's going on in your hometown or what life is like in an area that you'll be visiting.
Behind the Scenes at News Aggregator Topix.Net Topix.net combines an excellent news search engine with two other hot technologies: local search and personalization.
Topix.net - world's largest news Website - launches with 150,000 categories
Topix Up to 9,000 News Sources Holy-Cow-When-You-Said-Local-You-Weren't-Kiddin' news site Topix (http://www.topix.net) is now up to 9,000 news sources, up from 3,600. Almost a quarter of the sources they're crawling are daily newspapers, and only 1% of what they're crawling are Weblogs.
Why Topix Is Different: Toward A Sustainable Model For Net Media Companies Last Friday I had a chance to stop by the Palo Alto offices of Topix, in many ways a classic internet start up . Valley-based, run by a serial entrepreneur, good buzz - but it didn't take long for me to sense that something was different this time. Before I get into that, let me first give you a few thoughts on the service itself, and the broader role it plays in the search business. [more]
Local News on Demand Wow. Have you seen Topix.net yet? Local news on demand. Plug in your zip code and there's local cop and crime news, culture stories, politics and even art from an amazingly wide variety of local sources. This is news aggregation at its best. It grabs everything and really brings it down almost to a neighborhood level.
Two New Sites Spidering U.S. Local Content If you're an executive at the online operations of a newspaper, radio, or TV station in the U.S., you should take a look at Topix.net and at Google's local search beta test site. Topix spiders yours and more than 9,000 other local news sites. Its users can enter one of your local ZIP codes and see a page showing all local news from you and your competitors. For example, compare the local news page of my town's newspaper against Topix's for the same locale. Topix provides the same stories plus more. Topix vice president of business affairs Michael Markson tells me that his company wants to partner with, not compete against, local newspapers and broadcasters, increasing traffic to those sites.
Web site faces battle for users in market for local news The online search and news world is plenty crowded these days. But a group of former Sun Microsystems and Netscape engineers have carved out a space where few other Internet-only companies have ventured: local news.
New Web Site Review - Topix.net For the traveling executive, it never hurts to get a little local news from the next town on your agenda. Maybe that supplier you're courting was just indicted, or there is a tornado watch on tap. Topix.net, a news aggregation site, does a particularly nice job of collecting local news. Just put in the zip code or name of the town you're interested in, and up pops news from newspapers in that area (not just the big metro dailies), along with news from that state and the local weather.
A Local Google News No matter what your beat is, the site I'm about to tell you about likely covers it. Topix.net takes the idea of news aggregation one step further than sites like Google News and 1stHeadlines.com, categorizing news stories on the Web into more than 150,000 pages.
Topix.net Launches We're watching the launch of Topix.net, news site whose robots scrape thousands of American news media sites and aggregate and categorize the content for easy browsing by locality. We were initially skeptical of the venture, but have been impressed by what we've seen.
Topix.net Takes Local Search A Step Further News aggregation site Topix.net officially launched Monday, boasting 150,000 pages of topical news in strong contrast with Google News.s eight pages.
Local Search Gains Traction in Maps, News It also bases its categorizations not just on keyword searches but by matching news with a database of information from company names and celebrities to local streets and bridges, Skrenta said. Topix.net's news sources extend beyond mainstream media outlets. They also include a selection of college and high-school newspapers, Weblogs, local police blotters and health inspection and Coast Guard reports, Skrenta said.
Topix.net If you use RSS feeds, you're going to love Topix.net, one of the best aggregators I've come across. Whether you're looking for a "build-your-own" online newspaper or customized RSS feeds for your own site, Topix has it all. It offers an RSS feed for each of its 150,000 categories, including a news feed for every ZIP code in the US. Topix.net is calling itself "the largest publisher of non-weblog RSS on the net." It was put together by the folks who created the Open Directory Project, which now provides content for many major search engines. Topix will be a major new player in the news aggregation game.
A Whole Lot of Topix Topix.net offers 150,000 pages of highly categorized content as opposed to news.google's eight; revenue model localizes advertising.
News Search: Topix.net A web-based news aggregator that we've mentioned on ResourceShelf several times, Topix.net, moves out of Beta today. It's absolutely worthy of your attention.
All news is local to new Web site
Topix.net said its new Web site is the Internet's largest resource for news and offers 150,000 topical news pages and local news for every U.S. Zip code. The company said the extreme localization would be a boon for advertisers. "They can maximize their online advertising budget by ensuring that their messages are directed to their desired target demographic," Rich Skrenta, chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We're connecting people to the most relevant news about their life, work and interests ... with 150,000 micro-focused news pages from 9,000 news sources."
Topix.net Launches "This is a way for a small business in a small town to make sure its ads are being read only by customers in their area," said Michael Markson, the company's VP of business affairs.
Topix.net Launches Today Via I Want Media: Topix.net launched today, a news aggregator site with 150,000 topically categorized news pages from over 9,000 online news sources, reports Click Z News. What makes Topix.net different from other news aggregators, such as Yahoo or MSN, is its focus on local news and business. The site is hoping to attract both national and local advertisers, with the local focus stemming from a regional search feature that ensures area advertisers exposure to their customers. The site uses RSS and and XML feeds, but also searches HTML pages for news. Topix.net has plans to create custom RSS feeds in the future as well.
Topix.net Launches
I have been test-driving Topix.net, the new news aggregation site, and I have to say, I am impressed, at least on the functionalities side. For me, the RSS feeds on niche topics is a killer... The site is similar to news aggregators like Google's, MSN's or Yahoo!'s, but it takes the concept to the local level...local news on my alma mater town Bloomington..better still, an RSS feed on it...Hoosier heaven... Topix.net's executive management team includes three of the founders of the Open Directory Project, currently the source for the Google directory, including Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net.Topix.net betting local approach will give it extra muscle San Jose Business Journal, posted March 5, 2004 A Palo Alto news Web site is launching that borrows the advertising model of Google, the focus of city sites, the aggregation function of Yahoo and the familiarity of a community newspaper.
Hot Topix
"News fiends should take a look at Topix.net, which offers news sorted into a larger number of categories. The front page carries the start of one story from each of the main subject areas; it also offers a range of people from Ann Miller to Vanessa Redgrave, and local US news by post code or city. Dive into a section such as Science/Technology News and you get offered even more topics. In this case, they run from Agriculture to Space via Chemistry and Nanotechnology. Computer topics include FreeBSD, Linux and Microsoft Windows. The site trawls news stories from more than 10,000 sources to create more than 150,000 "topically based, individual news-pages", so there's a good chance you'll find something of interest."
For Truly Local News Try Topix.net
One to Watch: Topix
New Travel Resource: Topix From the folks who brought us the Open Directory Project, we now get a massive search engine of news called Topix. One of the best things about Topix is that you can get news locally for more than 100 U.S. cities as well as according to certain business topics, including Travel and Tourism.
New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon -- Topix
Another MegaNews Site
Local news rules on Topix
Topix.net: Where Local News Rules
From the creators of the OpenDirectory Project... From the creators of the Open Directory Project comes their new effort: a classifying news crawler : Topix.net. They've got some cool text processing that allows them to classify each story in terms of content and geographic location. Very cool ideas in agreggation!
New News Aggregator: Topix
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