Topix Expands its Search Features

Topix is now offering a more powerful way to search for online conversations.

It provides one year of blog and news results and serves them up in a visual graph so you can see how the results play out over 12 months.

A search on iPod yielded 128,000 results.

And while it is not surprising that our little sound machine gets a lot of online traction, you can see that January and February were really big months.

To find out why, Topix allows you to narrow the search to a specific time period by simply clicking the blue bars in the graph.

The MacHeads (Big Macs? Mac Daddies?) among you will recall that a flood of new iPod accessories were announced at MacWorld in January and Apple Computer came out with more iPod gadgetry in February. Topix gives the rest of us a fast, easy and fun way to find this out.

And since you can discern between news outlet and blog results, Topix helps illustrate, quite literally, the expanding news cycle.

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Comments

[thebizofknowledge]

All I can say is that it's about time Topix made it easier to do a search! It's so incredibly frustrating when you can't narrow a search, especially by date.