Comments on: Topix Does What Yahoo Wouldn’t

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By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:55:35 +0000

Topix Adds Blogs To Search Results

Topix.net recently (November 6. 2005) started to index blog content and is offering it as part of its regular search results. This is a monumental move by Topix.net in the rise of citizen journalism. Yahoo! News recently began to offer

By: Chris Tolles

Chris Tolles — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:28:25 +0000

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

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:19:17 +0000

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.

By: Chris Tolles

Chris Tolles — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:12:47 +0000

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

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:46:43 +0000

Chris,

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

By: Chris Tolles

Chris Tolles — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:06:59 +0000

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.

By: DrDel

DrDel — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:02:50 +0000

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!

By: Scott Johnson of Feedster

Scott Johnson of Feedster — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:08:06 +0000

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.