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Posted March 2, 2005.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
President Bush's second term is off to a busy start with plenty
of headlines during February; particularly for his travels through
Europe.
Newsknife has followed his activities and ranked the news sites
that covered them. If you're interested in George Bush keep an eye
on these sites.
Our ranked list of 59 news sites was produced by Newsknife from
3045 individual site listings for 15 major news articles related
to George Bush, at the main Google
News site during February. (You can see the articles we
monitored further down this page)
The sites were listed on the Google News home page as sources.
Reuters is our No. 1 ranked site. The top 12 of the 59 sites are
listed below.
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page, all "sorted by relevance". We award
each site points per appearance on a sliding scale from first to
seventh position, and we total the points to get the ranking positions.
You can see how many times we found our first three sites on the
Google News home page in positions 1-7. For instance, we found Reuters
listed five times as the most relevant site for a news story on
George Bush, once as the second ranked site, three times as fourth
ranked and once as seventh source.
1 Reuters
5 1 0 3 0 0 1
2 ABC News
0 1 1 1 1 3 0
3 FOX News
2 0 1 0 0 0 1
4 The
Christian Science Monitor
5 World
Peace Herald, US
6 CNN
7 Xinhua,
China
8 Voice
of America
9 San
Francisco Chronicle
10 The
New York Times
11 International
Herald Tribune, France
12 NPR
Any surprises there? We are unfamiliar with World Peace Herald.
If you are too, visit their About
World Peace Herald page.
For the detailed list of all 59 sites click at left to join Newsknife’s
Members' Area.
European sites
This ranked list of sites was extracted from our main list of 59
sites. You can see that in our sample, European news sites seldom
made the front page of the main Google News site, despite President
Bush being in Europe during part of February.
1 International Herald Tribune, France
0 0 2 0 0 0 0
2 Deutsche Welle, Germany
0 1 0 0 0 0 0
3 Turkish Press, Turkey
0 0 1 0 0 0 0
4 Guardian Unlimited, UK
0 0 0 1 0 0 0
5 ic Scotland.co.uk, UK
0 0 0 0 1 0 0
6 Belfast Telegraph, UK
0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Reuters, UK
0 0 0 0 0 0 1
The news items we sampled
Feb 2, Bush says will tackle Social Security + Iraq.
Feb 6, Bush fine tunes his approach to retirement.
Feb 7, Bush can expect a fight with Congress on spending cuts.
Feb 8, In Detroit Bush will push economic plan.
Feb 10, Bush nearly triples tsunami relief request.
Feb 17, Bush talks: Syria and Iran on the table.
Feb 20, Bush in Europe talking security with allies.
Feb 20, Bush's new Intelligence boss.
Feb 21, Action from Iran and Syria, demands Bush
Feb 21, Syria pressured by Bush, Europe and Beirut protesters.
Feb 21, Bush tapes not for public says author.
Feb 22, Bush in Brussels.
Feb 23, Bush No. 1 Terrorist - German protesters.
Feb 23, Diplomacy just starting on Iran says Bush
Feb 24, Putin and Bush find common ground.
Remember, you can see the full list of 59 top ranked news sites
covering George Bush during February 2005 right now if you click
at left to join Newsknife’s Members'
Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see for each news
site, in amazing detail, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings
for the year to date.
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