News Classification System

January 13, 2004 10:41 AM

From the creators of the OpenDirectory Projectcomes their new effort: a classifying news crawler : Topix.net. They've got some cool text processing that allows them to classify each story in terms of content and geographic location. Very cool ideas in agreggation!
posted by cpfeifer (3 comments total)

Once it knows my ZIP code, why not pull top local stories to the front page? But generally, yeah, very cool.
posted by nicwolff at 12:09 PM on January 13, 2004

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posted by jon_kill at 2:00 PM on January 13, 2004

As far as I know, Google News doesn't (yet) allow you to get news from a specific city or state, jon_kill.

Having said that, though, I'd appreciate being able to get local news from *my* city and province, which isn't in the US. (How long did it take for Google to have a localized news.google.ca, though? Months.)
posted by arto at 3:07 AM on January 14, 2004