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November 6, 2005

Topix Does What Yahoo Wouldn’t

Michael Arrington

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Topix.net added 15,000 top blogs into its news engine today.

Unlike Yahoo, which took the step of integrating blog search results into the news area but pushed them off to the side, Topix has integrated blog posts into results in the same manner as their other 12,000 news feeds.

The Topix blog post announcing the addition gives great information on how they chose the 15,000 feeds, and how blog coverage differs from traditional news coverage. Good stuff. I’m really happy to see this.

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  1. Scott Johnson of Feedster

    November 7th, 2005 at 7:08 am

    Interesting. I hope they identify them somehow at the URL level so they can be easily distinguished from traditional news providers. An awful lot of search engines treat Topix content authoritatively since it comes from “official” news providers. If they change that then it has some ramifications.

  2. DrDel

    November 7th, 2005 at 10:02 am

    I agree… Topix is going to have to do a good job of establishing what is and isn’t a blog headline

    I wouldn’t want to hear that Bush was Assassinated by Osama bin Laden only to find out that it was a blog I was reading and not a legitimate news source!

  3. Chris Tolles

    November 7th, 2005 at 12:06 pm

    Yes — we’re tagging the source type here separately. Currently, the UI is called out on our site with a background color, and we’ll separate this in partner feeds, as well.

    This is one of the more interesting issues here — calling things out visially, and in the feeds is a straightforward first step — but we’re watching this closely.

  4. Michael Arrington

    November 7th, 2005 at 12:46 pm

    Chris,

    Awesome product. What you are doing will allow so many more people to understand blogs. You made the web a better place yesterday.

  5. Chris Tolles

    November 8th, 2005 at 12:12 am

    Michael:

    Glad you like it! Catchy headline, BTW — Yours was the best out of a whole bunch today.

    Thanks for checking out what we’re doing. (even if some of us are on the web 1.0 side of the table ;-)

    -CST

  6. Michael Arrington

    November 8th, 2005 at 12:19 am

    Chris, the funny thing is that only you and I know what you are talking about in that last sentence…(ten points and a TechCrunch tshirt to anyone else who can figure it out). Thanks for bringing that up…and I apologize and retract that statement completely based on what you guys are doing now. :-)

  7. Chris Tolles

    November 8th, 2005 at 12:28 am

    :-)

    Vanity searching on anything said about oneself is the one feature completely covered by blog search in 2005.

    Glad I didn’t talk any more about tagging that day, though :-)

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