Topix news is an online news community that connects individuals over the WWW by sharing information and organising discussion boards with topics that are relevant to them in every U.S state, city and town. Topix.com is considered to be one of the top 10 online newspapers as per an analysis carried out in March 2008 and it gets news from 50,000 sources that are read avidly by 360,000 users who also are active in their forums. Topix LLC is a privately owned company which works out off its office in Palo Alto, Calif. Some of the main investors in the company are The McClatchy Company, The Gannett Co. Inc and the Tribune Company.In the year 2004, news from different sources was collected and its aggregate found its way into Topix.com. The team at Topix created algorithms that collected news from over 50,000 sources and it also kept a close watch if there were any breaking news that needed an un-demanded attention 24 hours of a day. These algorithms were so efficient that it collected news that was freshly released and categorised them into the sections it belonged to and placed them there, with news being so fresh and piping hot, millions of individuals soon started frequenting the website and became loyal Topix members. In December 2005 forums were added where readers could now discuss the pros and cons of various topics and be actively involved over the world’s happenings.Topix began something new in 2007 where it involved locals in writing about news and events that took place around them, these articles could now be placed in the publishing system which is easy to use and is now considered to be the largest web directory by humans and is used by Goole, Aol and Alexa, the NewHoo was a co-founded by Chris Tolles who is Topix.com’s CEO.
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