SpivO Wants to Know About Your Neighborhood

September 15, 2006; 05:46 AM

SpivO (http://www.spivo.com) has spent the last week launching new channels in the search network. Today, the search engine announced that SpivO News is on their list of upgrades. Currently upgrades are not shown on the SpivO Workshop as they encourage all users to submit comments on live channels at all times.

When SpivO went live in 2004, they launched with a simple search engine, feeds from the Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org) and the SpivO News channel. At the time, the news channel was little more than various RSS and Java feeds coming from common news sources. In April of 2006, they launched the new SpivO News which pulls from multiple sources in a method that provides more relevant search results for SpivO News readers that prefer to search rather than browse news.

A couple years and fourteen channels later, SpivO has more to live up to and as their loyal user base grows so does the demand for more relevant content. When surveying a group of SpivO users, they learned that over half of their daily users go online to read local news. Currently, SpivO News pulls from about fifty news sources and four of those are aggregated which gives SpivO News about seven thousand news articles every day. Most of the news is national and international but SpivO will soon dip into your neighborhood for content.

SpivO has organized a group of content organizers to get news feeds from America’s one hundred top metropolitan areas and the many suburbs that surround them. The task will take several months to complete and SpivO encourages all news sources to submit their news feeds to http://spivo.com/news/submit.php to assist in the content addition.