Topix Crawls 15,000 Top Weblogs

Topix.net provides thousands of topically driven, specific news web pages and populating each of those pages with only news about that particular topic and thus, provides an intuitive, easy way to find the targeted news that is relevant to you.

Now Topix.net has added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. Excerpts from a Topix Weblog report

“Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. Blog posts are being categorized into our 30,000 local feeds as well as our 300,000 subject feeds. Our search results now include blog results, and posts should show up on our site and search index within 1-3 minutes of being crawled.”

“But our mission is to discover the news within the sea of blog posts, and report them by location and subject. What we’re releasing today is our first step in connecting our readers to 15,000 more voices talking about the topics they care about.”

“How did we judge which blogs to add? We started by crawling about 1M blogs, and then began automatically filtering and ranking these using our NewsRank algorithms — which consider a variety of factors, such as blog posting frequency, writing style, type of reference, popularity, and so forth. We ended up adding the top 15,000 sources that passed these tests.”

If they have missed crawling and indexing your blog, use can use this form to submit your feed for inclusion in the Topix index.