Ask Jeeves Taps Topix.net to Deliver Local News; Major Search Engine Selects Topix.net's Local News Technology.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Topix.net, the Internet's Largest News Site, today announced that it has been selected by Ask Jeeves Noun 1. Ask Jeeves - a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product , Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ) to provide news to Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) for its Local News channel. Through this partnership, Ask Jeeves becomes the first major search engine to feature Topix.net's news technology. Topix.net provides visitors to Ask Jeeves access to local news gathered from over 7,000 sources. Unlike any other news aggregator See syndication format. , Topix.net provides localized news for over 32,500 U.S. and international localities. Ask Jeeves' utilization of Topix.net includes the use of NewsRank(TM), Topix.net's algorithmic story editing technology, which improves the user experience by leveraging a set of semantic category filters to improve the relevancy of the news selection in favor of major and interesting stories. "Connecting our users to local news with Topix.net is something we're very excited about here at Ask Jeeves," said Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President of Search Properties at Ask Jeeves. "Getting relevant and timely local news to our users is an important part of our local strategy." For partners interested in subject specific or locally relevant news, Topix.net licenses its news aggregation technology, giving any web site the ability to integrate contextually relevant content onto their site, increasing page views and repeat visitors. Topix.net distributes news organized by topic and location for over 150,000 categories, enabling web sites to be able to feature news that matters to their users. "We're excited to provide Ask Jeeves' users with neighborhood-level local news," said Topix.net Chief Executive Officer Rich Skrenta Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. . "By featuring the news we aggregate from every newspaper, radio and TV station, and thousands of other sources, Ask Jeeves users will be able to quickly find the news that matters to them." Powering news for over 1,500 web sites, Topix.net has the richest and most comprehensive syndicated news solution available today. About Topix.net Topix.net is the Internet's largest news site, providing news about over 150,000 subjects, including news for every locality in the U.S., every major sports team, every public company, and subject based news pages on industries, health, entertainment and thousands of other categories. Topix.net aggregates from over 7,000 news sources, and distributes its 150,000 RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. news feed, as well powering the Topix.net site itself. Topix.net was founded in 2002 by an experienced Silicon Valley technology and management team that built the Open Directory Project (acquired by Netscape) as well as executives from Sun, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Netscape, and cofounders of Terraspring, Spoke Software and the Internet Commerce Group at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . Topix.net is headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . www.topix.net |
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