Ask Jeeves chooses Topix for local news channel
22 September 2004
Search engine Ask Jeeves has selected Topix.net to provide news for its Local News channel.
Ask Jeeves is the first major search engine to feature Topix.net's news technology, which will provide visitors to Ask Jeeves with access to local news gathered from over 7,000 sources.
Topix.net provides localised news for over 32,500 US and international localities and Ask Jeeves' will be using NewsRank, Topix.net's algorithmic story editing technology, which leverages a set of semantic category filters to improve the relevancy of the news selection in favour of major and interesting stories.
"Connecting our users to local news with Topix.net is something we're very excited about here at Ask Jeeves," said Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties at Ask Jeeves. "Getting relevant and timely local news to our users is an important part of our local strategy."
Topix.net licenses its news aggregation technology to provide subject specific or locally relevant news and distributes news organised by topic and location for over 150,000 categories, enabling web sites to feature news that matters to their users.
"We're excited to provide Ask Jeeves' users with neighbourhood-level local news," added Topix.net chief executive officer Rich Skrenta. "By featuring the news we aggregate from every newspaper, radio and TV station, and thousands of other sources, Ask Jeeves users will be able to quickly find the news that matters to them."
Topix.net currently powers news for more than 1,500 websites.
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