How does topikality work?
topikality learns what topiks you’re into and – just as importantly – what sort of articles you like. Then it delivers only those articles that match your preferences. A handful of them each day.
And it does this very intelligently. Over a couple of days, you vote articles up or down, and it learns precisely what you value, and what you don’t. After about 50 votes, you’ll start to see some real differences in what it delivers. The more you vote, the better it gets. (Yes, you do have to train it a bit in the beginning – about 5 minutes a day. It’s not smart enough to read your mind. Yet… ;-)
Each time you click, topikality’s Statistical Machine Learning technology analyses some 200 of the article’s features, and draws comparisons against previous articles that you liked (and didn’t like) – looking for trends. So unlike a Google Alert, it doesn’t just consider whether you like or dislike the topik subject. It actually considers things like the words and phrases throughout the article.