Alex Wright


Topix

March 29, 2004

John Battelle on Topix, a new search startup that specializes in filtering news sources through an automated faceted classification algorithm:

Skrenta likes to call Topix a “150,000-facet diamond,” at least one facet of which should appeal to most news consumers. But step back a few thousand feet and look at Topix’s approach, and you start to see something else at work, something instructive to anyone interested in next-generation approaches to search.

At the risk of getting mired in academic debate, one could argue that Topix is a proof point in the semantic web. > Topix


File under: Semantic Web

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