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What is PeruzeIt?

PeruzeIt is a website that delivers personalized news. We search out, summarize, aggregate, and categorize all the latest news and blog posts from across the internet.

Who posts all of the news?

Our custom computer programs, also known as "spiders" or "crawlers", automatically seek out and retrieve information from across the world wide web. We then pass the retrieved articles through a machine learning algorithm in order to place them into their correct categories. The relative importance and authority of the article is also determined at this stage. Finally, a summary of the article shows up on our web site.

Why should I join?

By joining PeruzeIt, you gain the ability to control what articles you see. You can select what news categories you would like to be displayed on your personal page. You can also create a filter for each category that will remove articles that are deemed to not be noteworthy enough or contain custom keywords you specify.

What if I find spam?

Occasionally, a spam article will sneak through our filters. If you find a link to a spammy article on PeruzeIt, you can click on the "Flag as Spam" icon beneath the title. This will cause our program to remove the article link from the PeruzeIt website.

What if an article is categorized incorrectly?

Since a computer program is responsible for categorizing each article, it is possible for mistakes to occur. If you find an article that appears to be in the wrong category, please click on the folder icon underneath the article's title. This will allow you to change the article's categorization. In addition, this will help the automatic classifying system to do a better job of classifying in the future.

One of my articles or blog posts was linked to from PeruzeIt. Can you remove it?

If you would like to have the summary and link removed from PeruzeIt, please contact us to let us know. If you would like to prevent other articles on your website from being indexed and summarized in the future, you can exclude the user-agent Peruzer using a robots.txt file. For more information on the Robots Exclusion Standard, please visit Wikipedia.

Why did you name the website PeruzeIt?

Simply because we liked the name. We have known since day one that the correct definition of "peruse" is to read thoroughly, which might seem like the opposite of what a user might do on the site. But then again, some users might use the site to delve deeply and truly peruse a topic. The site might mean one thing to one person and completely the opposite to another, just like the word itself.