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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
According to day-by-day traffic numbers being circulated by Hitwise, Yahoo News is the #1 source for news these days, especially in the days leading up to, and during, the election. In fact, Yahoo News's market share for news visits is triple Google News', the #4 player in a near dead heat with Fox News at #5. MSNBC is #3; CNN.com is #2.
The Drudge Report, ABC News, NYTimes.com, USA Today, The Huffington Post, AOL News, The Washington Post, and Real Clear Politics are among the other leaders this past week.
The picture is a little more embarrassing for Google News than the Hitwise figures seem to suggest, because they have FOXNews.com Elections in 8th place. Combined, the FOX properties as a whole vault into 4th place, pushing Google News down to #5.
Of course these are estimates based on Hitwise's proprietary sampling methods. But Yahoo News has a solid lead, it appears.Labels: google news, yahoo news
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Andrew Goodman
Friday, December 28, 2007
Some speculation as to why no one comments on Google News. (Partly, it's because you can only comment if you're in the story, but that may not be the only reason.) Trying to layer Web 2.0 (or whatever you care to call today's version of connectivity) on conventional algo-generated news aggregation is yet another case of taking what's old and trying to make it new without fundamentally changing it. (Topix is one player Battelle and Masnick didn't mention.)
Google has in some sense been lucky that its financial performance has allowed it to plug embarrassing gaps in its ability to foster community. The quality of commentary and tagging on Google Video, for example, paled in comparison with that on YouTube. But a few billion dollars later, that problem was solved for Google.Labels: google news
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Andrew Goodman
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