Topix Up to 6,000 News Sources

Holy-Cow-When-You-Said-Local-You-Weren't-Kiddin' news site Topix (http://www.topix.net) is now up to 6,000 news sources, up from 3,600. Almost a quarter of the sources they're crawling are daily newspapers, and only 1% of what they're crawling are Weblogs.

Topix allows you to get local news. I mean really local. I mean city level, though you can specify zip code. Searching for 90210 provides me several possible categories but the top category is, of course, for Beverly Hills CA.

Oh, yes, there are other categories. Among them are business, world, sports, and offbeat. These categories have literally hundreds if not thousands of subcategories; Sci/Tech has more specific categories for everything from Agriculture to Geology to Linux to Paleontology. Pages also have their own RSS feeds if you prefer to do your monitoring via a feed reader.

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