News Aggregation Site Employs Human Eyes

April 2nd, 2007 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

(AP) -- The news-aggregation site Topix has developed software for filtering out spam and other junk from its message forums. To filter in the good postings, however, the site has turned to human volunteers.


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