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Are blogs news? Topix says yes
Topix CEO Rich Skrenta passes along word that the local news aggregation service Topix has begun including 15,000 blogs in its 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."
Yep, New Media Musings postings now show up in Topix.
November 7, 2005 at 12:05 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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