At Top7, we have developed a unique ranking-based recommendation engine, in which people rank everything that is on their mind, from songs to electronics to games to vacation spots and anything in between. We then apply some smart proprietary algorithms and machine-learning techniques to match rankers with similar tastes and to provide highly customized recommendations for every topic imaginable.

Top7 is a community of taste-makers joining together to define what is best of ... everything. People ranking on Top7 consist of anyone and everyone who wants to get their voice heard, and hear the voices of their friends and others whose tastes they like, while contributing to the overall conclusions of the community at large. Is Angry Birds the best iPhone game? If you have an opinion, you can shape the answer.

You can come to Top7 to find information, and break it down in all sorts of interesting ways to satisfy answers to tons of your questions. You can also come to Top7 to answer these questions yourself, finding topics that you feel knowledgeable about or that you are interested in and then help form the decision about what is truly the Top in Top7. You can come to Top7 to find people with similar tastes as you do to see what they like. And since we connect to Facebook, you can come here to see what your friends think is coolest or best from the topics that interest you.

We’ll give you the information if you need it, and make it fun. If you want to help decide what Kanye West’s best song is, we will provide all of his music videos right there for you, making voting possible for everyone and fun to play around with.

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Come to Top7 for the information you can filter through, contribute and participate by ranking your own interests, and then stick around when you see what your friends like and what other people like that have your same interests and opinions on your favorite topics.

Our method for ranking is more complete than other polls because it takes into account more items and the order in which you rank them. Just because you think Roger Federer is the most ridiculously gifted tennis player the world has ever known does not mean you don’t want to give some love to Rafael Nadal!

You can rank and then look at results, or you can look at the results and then contribute. It’s a chicken-or-the-egg sort of website. We think that if you want to find results, you’ll find yourself wanting to be a part of them, and if you want to vote on your favorite topics, you’ll be curious what everyone else thinks.

You might be wondering why we chose to be Top7 instead of Top10 or Top42. Well, our special formula takes into account 7 items not just because the number 7 is lucky. And not just because Bojan the Top7 dog was born in July, and not just because he has 7 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies. Yes, those are all good reasons, but did you know that the U.S. government chose to make phone numbers 7 digits because it is proven that 7 is the best number of items in a series to remember? Psychologists call the number seven “the magic number”, because that’s where our short-term memory maxes out for items on a list. It makes 7 the optimal number for us to figure out which items are the best in a series and gauge your opinions on anything and everything we have to offer.