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Posted May 1, 2010
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main US-oriented Google
News site.
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The following are from our sample of 68,159 listings by 4027 sites
for 1053 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
top blog sources: year-to-date
Blogs are now a substantial feature at Google News. In February
this year Newsknife found 3341 listings by 375 blogs. In March we
found 1818 listings by 237 blogs.
But which are the top blogs at Google News? We've produced a rating
of the blogs Newsknife has found most often on the home page of
Google News this year.
Surprise: only 39 of the thousands of blogs made the Google News
home page, and the established news sites led the numbers.
Here are the top 10 of those 39 blog sites. New York Times leads
with 41 listings. (Each link goes to a sample blog from that site.)
You can see all 39 blog sites and their 206 listings that we found
on the home page of Google News this year, in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
1 New York Times (blog) 41
2 FOXNews (blog) 26
3 Washington Post (blog) 16
4 Huffington Post (blog) 15
5 ABC News (blog) 11
6 CBS News (blog) 9
7 Politico (blog) 9
8 New York Daily News (blog) 8
9 Los Angeles Times (blog) 7
10 CNN Political Ticker (blog) 6
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Our standard monthly ratings:
Top Blogs - April
Blogs found on Google News home page. Rated by volume + Google
News relevance ranking. Blogs listed here may link to one of many
blogs at that site. Visit the Newsknife Members' Area to see the
full list of blogs and blog headlines
April:
18 blogs and their 48 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 New York Times (blog) 13
2 FOXNews (blog) 5
3 Los Angeles Times (blog) 3
4 Huffington Post (blog) 3
5 Politico (blog) 3
6 Washington Post (blog) 3
Top sources for the 2 Top Stories
Dominating the Google News home page when you first view it are
their two "Top Stories". And dominating these are the
two news sites listed as their first sources. This is the best exposure
a news site could aim for.
The columns in the lists below are ranking, appearances noted by
Newsknife as No.1 source in the first Top Story, and the second
Top Story. The full lists of 21 and 40 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
April only:
1 5 5 New
York Times
2 4 2 Reuters
3 4 1 Los
Angeles Times, CA
4 1 4 Washington
Post
5 3 0 Times
Online, UK
6 2 1 Christian Science Monitor
Year to May :
1 10 12 Wall
Street Journal, NY
2 9 8 Reuters
3 7 9 Washington
Post
4 7 6 FOX
News
5 5 9 ABC
News
6 7 5 Los
Angeles Times, CA
No. 1 sources
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page and thirty on each sub-page, all "sorted
by relevance". We award each site points per appearance on
a sliding scale (with occasional tweaking) to get the ranked positions.
The second column is the number of appearances we recorded as the
first source for a news item. The full lists of 41 and 80 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 32 New
York Times
2 21 Reuters
3 21 Los
Angeles Times, CA
4 19 Washington
Post
5 15 BBC
News, UK
6 14 Wall
Street Journal, NY
Year to May :
1 95 New
York Times
2 83 Reuters
3 79 Washington
Post
4 73 Wall
Street Journal, NY
5 62 Los
Angeles Times, CA
6 58 FOX
News
Home page sources
This table shows the number of appearances per site that Newsknife
found on the home page of Google News as source 1 to 7 for major
news items.
Last month we found Associated Press 12 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 15
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 281 and 722 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 The
Associated Press
12 54 28 23 22 19 15
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
0 88 0 7 3 6 2
3 New
York Times
32 8 16 8 13 7 7
4 Reuters
21 11 22 10 12 6 5
5 Washington
Post
19 15 13 12 10 11 12
6 BBC
News, UK
15 8 13 10 11 14 8
Year to May :
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
9 346 10 19 17 17 18
2 The
Associated Press
40 177 59 52 44 37 29
3 Reuters
83 43 65 55 39 30 33
4 New
York Times
95 36 60 47 44 30 23
5 Washington
Post
79 47 60 38 41 41 36
6 Wall
Street Journal, NY
73 32 56 30 50 35 31
Master subpage sources
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
Most appearances on home page as % of site total
During April we did not monitor the subpages of Google News. The
above regular ratings will return next month.
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-April. Column 2 is appearances found
during April. Column 3 is the % increase for April. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Mar APR %
44 42 95 CBS
News
18 14 78 Atlantic
Online
13 9 69 MarketWatch
16 11 69 NPR
17 11 65 PRESS
TV, Iran
265 173 65 The
Associated Press
New sites found last month
Newsknife notes many sites for the first time at Google News every
month. However, during April we did not monitor the subpages of
Google News.
Here are the 4 new sites we found on the home page of Google News,
ranked by volume found. The columns of the list are rank, home page
appearances, total appearances.
April:
1 1 1 Accent
2 1 1 LoanSafe
3 1 1 City of Georgetown Texas
4 1 1 Sonoran News
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