The Alltop is a news aggregator website, which was launched in March 2008. Like other news aggregators, it aggregates and displays a bunch of sites for people. Later on it started sites related to other topics that (a) have a large readership and (b) hasn’t been aggregated in an elegant and efficient manner. These include, www.travel.alltop.com,
www.jobs.alltop.com, etc.
As the company’s website explains, the name “Alltop” has come from the fact that unlike other news aggregators, it displays news on the top and the company’s banner at the bottom.
The company’s website has a refreshing look with so many topics, sub-topics and news sources to select from. It first divides the news into topics such as work, culture, sports, geos, etc. It further divides each one into sub-topics, which opens up into dozens of news sources (newspapers, magazines, websites, etc.). For example, to read news about
Google News (www.news.google.com) is the mother of all news aggregators. It has computerized auto search, which scans thousands of news sources around the world and compile them according to popularity and relevance. Another news aggregator (for Indian news) is Samachar (www.samachar.com).
