The UK and Ireland’s first news portal featuring a search engine scouring both press sites and the blogoshere is here. Wikio, simply put, offers you the most comprehensive news search around.
Wikio’s raison d’être is news, yet like a good Swiss Army knife, it offers a wealth of services allowing you to find all the top stories on the topics that interest you.
Our search engine brings you the top news from over 55,000 media sites and blogs from around the world, and also provides a portal to the hottest topics in the blogosphere. Wikio’s news can be fully personalised, meaning you can create your own personal news pages. If you want all the pertinent info when shopping online, a search on Wikio Shopping will put you in the know. And our unique video aggregator brings you the most talked about videos on the net and the discussions that surround them.
Wikio aggregates both news and views
On Wikio you can find all the news that interests you, either by browsing our news sections and their various categories, or performing searches for keywords.
Our searches are the most comprehensive out there; results are ordered according to relevance, popularity and how recently pieces have been published, and are grouped so as to offer not only breaking news and stories from a plethora of media outlets in one place, but also related blog posts on the same topics.
All this means you can choose amongst all the relevant angles, info and opinion that the web has to offer.
What’s Hot on Blogs
As well as searching blogs when you want top news stories, you can also use Wikio to explore what’s hot in the blogosphere. A search on Wikio Blogs allows you to see the web’s most vibrant discussions amongst bloggers, for any given topic, and even the links between related posts – so you can catch up on all the buzz and even join in yourself.
We also provide the most thorough and regularly-updated rankings for UK blogs to date, so you can discover the Top Blogs for a host of categories and areas of interest, or just browse the overall rankings and see who’s Top of the Blogs.
Personalising your news
With Wikio, subscribing to the news on a chosen subject is easy: one click allows you to subscribe to a news category or a search result, and will provide you with your own news page on which to find all the relevant stories and breaking news.
You can also use Wikio as an RSS reader to subscribe to existing news sources. If you see a blog or site that you like whilst searching, you can subscribe to it with a single click and either create a new page to follow it on, or just add it to a page you have already created.
Part of the relevancy of news items comes from the fact that stories on Wikio can be voted for. Voting for a story helps move it up the rankings, meaning you can boost your favourites and increase their visibility, and at the same time see what stories other users consider most worthy of your attention.
Shopping with confidence
Rather than search far and wide to make sure that you’ve got everything you need to make the perfect purchase, you can simply use Wikio Shopping. Our product information is split into a number of categories, so you can browse those, or just simply use our search engine to get a summary of press and user scores, reviews, photos, videos, forum talk, articles and opinions on the product you’re after – allowing you to shop with the assistance of all the best info on the net.
Video Chatter
Wikio Video brings you the most topical videos on the web. A simple search will supply all the pertinent clips that are drawing comment across press sites and blogs. So you can see the videos people are talking about, read what’s being said, and join the discussion or even start your own.
So there’s a quick summary of what Wikio is all about. We’re working on making sure Wikio is Europe’s number 1 news portal, and to that end don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, suggestions or comments.
Don’t forget you can also check out the Wikio sites for France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the US.
Thanks for reading and enjoy!
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