Comments on: News Classification System

News Classification System

cpfeifer — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:41:45 -0800

From the creators of the OpenDirectory Project comes 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!

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:09:40 -0800

Once it knows my ZIP code, why not pull top local stories to the front page? But generally, yeah, very cool.

By: jon_kill

jon_kill — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:00:10 -0800

By: arto

arto — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:07:23 -0800

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.)