Topix.net

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A Whole Lot of Topix

A Whole Lot of Topix 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
While rafts of new information is available daily on the Web, and competition is raging among the largest search engines like Yahoo and Google, a simple ...

Topix.net Gets Redesign

Topix.net Gets Redesign 08/02/2004 12:08 PM
Source: ClickZ - The company has upped the number of news sources it monitors to 7,000 from 3,600, and reorganized the way stories appear on the home page. Topix.net executives say the site uses a new algorithmic story editing technology,...

Topix.net and the "Add to My Yahoo"
button

Topix.net and the "Add to My Yahoo"
button 02/14/2004 01:04 AM
The guys over at topix.net recently put the "Add to My Yahoo" button all all of the 30,000+ RSS feeds they provide. For example, if you'd like to track news related to the 2004 presidential race, simply visit the topix.net 2004 Presidential Election page and hit the button on the right. Of course, this isn't rocket surgery. Anyone can add the button to a web site with an RSS (or Atom) feed. Check it out. They're doing some cool...

Topix.net Adds New Channels

Topix.net Adds New Channels 01/04/2005 11:29 PM
Search Engine Guide Jan 5 2005 3:19AM GMT

News search engine Topix.net gets even
better

News search engine Topix.net gets even
better 08/16/2004 10:06 AM
Source: Pandia - Recently the news search service Topix.net was upgraded with several new features like email alerts and (according to them) better relevance ranking....

75% of Topix Acquired by Media Group

75% of Topix Acquired by Media Group 03/23/2005 01:26 PM
"...Topix.net announced today that Gannett Co., Inc, Knight-Ridder, Inc. and Tribune Company jointly have acquired a 75 percent stake in Topix.net. Ownership is split evenly, with each media company owning 25 percent and the Topix.net founders retaining a 25 percent stake. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed."

Topix Redesigns, Offers Some New Stuff

Topix Redesigns, Offers Some New Stuff 08/03/2004 11:36 PM
Topix has redesigned and offers some new sources, including more news sources (up to over 7,000 now) and other goodies. The home page hasn't changed, though -- it's still at...

Newspapers Buy Into Topix.net, Dip Their
Toes Into Local Web Advertising

Newspapers Buy Into Topix.net, Dip Their
Toes Into Local Web Advertising 03/23/2005 12:46 AM
It's turning into quite a week for deals to be announced. Yahoo buys Flickr, Barry Diller buys Ask Jeeves and HP buys Snapfish. Next up, is Topix.net... which hasn't fully been bought out, but close enough. The news aggregation site (which we helped annou nce back when it launched) has carved itself up and sold off 25% each to three big newspaper players: Knight Ridder, Gannett and the Tribune Media Company. The folks at Topix.net keep the remaining 25%. It's sort of halfway between flipping the business and raising money (and the VCs were definitely circling and definitely interested). Topix.net remains an independent company (in fact, being own in equal parts by three competitors should help guarantee that). However, what's interesting is that, in the wake of many news organizations showing just how much they don't get the internet, here are three who appear to be making a real effort to adapt to the changes in the media world. Topix.net has always been based on the model of taking away ad revenue from local papers -- and this deal acts as a way for those papers to get further involved in cannibalizing their own print revenue, should it come to that (rather than just letting Topix.net cannibalize it all by themselves). The more interesting question may be how other news organizations respond. The backwards thinking ones may fear "helping the competition" and pull an AFP and "opt-out" of Topix.net's crawl. Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta doesn't think it will be a problem, noting: "For other publishers in our crawl, this deal will serve to drive them even more traffic than they're getting from us and our partners now. If a site has a functioning online business model, it should want more traffic and more distribution. If more online audience yields more revenue, you don't want less places linking to you." Of course, you could make the same argument about AFP -- but hopefully not all news organizations are so brain dead.

Ask Jeeves Gets More Personal, More
Local and Taps Topix.net

Ask Jeeves Gets More Personal, More
Local and Taps Topix.net 09/24/2004 11:38 AM
Topix lands first major portal deal.

New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon
-- Topix

New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon
-- Topix 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
I rarely get site announcements describing the site as a "News Site of Doom," but what the hey. After viewing it, I'll give it props as a news site of...

Topix Upgrades News, Adds Email Alerts

Topix Upgrades News, Adds Email Alerts 08/02/2004 12:08 PM
Source: SearchDay - Topix.net, one of the most useful news aggregators and search tools on the open web, has enhanced its service with a number of new features....

Newspaper Chains Gain Major Stake in
Topix.net

Newspaper Chains Gain Major Stake in
Topix.net 03/23/2005 04:43 PM
Gannett, Knight Ridder and the Tribune Co. collectively take a 75 percent stake in the startup news-search service.

Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Tribune buy
stake in Topix.net

Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Tribune buy
stake in Topix.net 03/23/2005 05:25 PM
Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Tribune, three of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, have each bought a 25 percent stake in Topix.net, a privately held startup that aggregates and categorizes online news, the companies said Wednesday.

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, Topix
Fall; DoCoMo, Honda Lead Decline

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, Topix
Fall; DoCoMo, Honda Lead Decline 03/22/2005 04:41 PM
Bloomberg Mar 22 2005 12:32AM GMT
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