Topix Adds Blogs To Their Searching

Slowly but surely catching up -- Topix has added blogs to their news search. Topix, as you might remember, breaks out their news by location and by topic, and now adds blogs to this mix of searching. This is kinda cool, but in a couple of other respects a little annoying -- the starting point for topix is as always http://www.topix.net.

When the blog inclusion works it works well. In the library topic mainstream news sources sit comfortably alongsite sources like ResourceShelf. However I was disappointed that so many categories didn't seem to have much evidence of blogs. There were some categories were I thought the personal experiences of blogs would blend well with news stories -- medical topics, for interest. But the topics I looked at didn't seem to have much bloggage. I'm sure that will change over time -- there are only 15,000 blogs included in the Topix directory.

The other annoying thing has to do with what kind of content is getting included. In many cases you're getting unique content, yes, but in many other cases you're just getting reguritated RSS feeds that some sites include alongside their own original content.

Topix has an overview of the kinds of blogs they're carrying along with some interesting graphs at http://blog.topix.net/archives/000082.html.

Posted to Internet-Weblogs-Search