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Posted August 3, 2006.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how), based on our analysis of the main Google News site.

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These ratings are based on our sample of 311,701 individual site listings at Google News by 3970 sites for 1088 news items during year to date 2006.

Featured rating:
Forbes rules July

December last year Forbes appearances that Newsknife found at Google News really took off. And they've never let up. During this July Forbes topped all our main ratings.

MONTH

  HOME

MNTH TOT

AUG05

13

196

SEP05

7

220

OCT05

13

175

NOV05

13

164

DEC05

76

834

JAN06

61

1288

FEB06

41

881

MAR06

64

1076

APR06

36

827

MAY06

27

735

JUL06

47

952

This chart shows Forbes appearances we found on Google News home page and totals for the home page and 10 sub-pages deep.

See if you can discover Forbes' secret of success. Below we've listed Forbes headlines we found during July as the No. 1 source for major stories at Google News.

You can usually click through to the original item at Forbes. (In our Members' Area you can do this for thousands of articles as part of in-depth profiles of thousands of news sites. Join now at the left of this page.)

This list also shows...
- the location of the news item on the Google News home page, (T1-2=Top Stories, W1-3=World, L1-3=local US).
- the ranked position (1) on the home page.
- the approx. time in New York when we saw it.


Forbes
W3, 1, 7:01 pm Fri Jul 7,
Fraud Trial Ordered For Italy's Ex-PM Berlusconi
L3, 1, 7:01 pm Fri Jul 7,
Counselor: US 'Wiser' Since Columbine
T1, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Jul 9,
At Least 122 Die in Siberian Plane Crash

W1, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Jul 9,
S. Korea Wavers on N. Korea Sanctions
L3, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Jul 9,
US Envoy: China Should Press N. Korea
T1, 1, 8:56 pm Tue Jul 11,
US Extends Geneva Rights to Detainees

L2, 1, 8:56 pm Tue Jul 11,
Big Dig Collapse Prompts Renewed Scrutiny
L3, 1, 8:56 pm Tue Jul 11,
Bomb Attack on Bombay Trains Kills 147
T2, 1, 7:00 pm Wed Jul 12,
Questions Abound Over Detainee Treatment

T2, 1, 7:00 pm Tue Jul 18,
Bush Says Syria Wants Back in Lebanon
W1, 1, 7:00 pm Tue Jul 25,
Israel Widens Control of Southern Lebanon
W3, 1, 7:00 pm Wed Jul 26,
Saddam Hussein: if I'm Convicted Shoot Me

L3, 1, 7:00 pm Thu Jul 27,
Bush Urged to Enforce Voting Rights Act
T1, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Jul 30,
Israel OKs Temporary Aerial Suspension
T2, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Jul 30,
Family Friend: Wash. Suspect Was Troubled

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 30 and 125 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1      3        3  Forbes
      2      2        0  New York Times
      3      1        1  swissinfo, Switzerland
      4      1        1  Bloomberg
      5      1        1  Los Angeles Times, CA
      6      1        1  Houston Chronicle, TX

Year to date:
      1    35      24  ABC News
      2    17      10  Bloomberg
      3    10        7  Reuters
      4      8      10  Forbes
      5      7        8  Kansas City Star, MO
      6      8        6  The Mercury News, 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 84 and 340 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1    15  Forbes
      2    11  New York Times
      3      8  ABC News
      4      8  Christian Science Monitor
      5      6  Houston Chronicle, TX
      6      6  Washington Post

Year to date:
      1  181  ABC News
      2  138  Reuters
      3  134  New York Times
      4  102  Washington Post
      5    93  Guardian Unlimited, UK
      6    83  Times Online, UK

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 Forbes 15 times on the home page of Google News as the first source for a news item, 6 times as the second source, through to 6 times as the 7th source. The full lists of 356 and 1296 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

Last month ABC News swept all Newsknife's major ratings. Bloomberg have knocked them off our home page rating top spot during May.

July only:
      1  Forbes
          15    6    6    4    6    4    6
      2  ABC News
            8    6    4    6    5    6    4
      3  New York Times
          11    3    3    5    5    4    2
      4  Bloomberg
      5  Houston Chronicle, TX
      6  BBC News, UK

Year to date:
      1  ABC News
          181  127  117  88  100  87  68
      2  Reuters
          138  106  86  91  72  82  53
      3  New York Times
          134  85  95  74  86  75  71
      4  Guardian Unlimited, UK
      5  Washington Post
      6  Bloomberg

Home page + 10 sub-pages sources

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This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for each site. The full lists of 1544 and 3970 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
1 Forbes 952
2 ABC News 947
3 Houston Chronicle, TX 804
4 Reuters 550
5 BBC News, UK 545
6 Washington Post 489

Year to date:
1 ABC News 17098
2 Guardian Unlimited, UK
3 Reuters 8357
4 BBC News, UK
5 Washington Post
6 Xinhua, China

Most appearances on home page as % of site total

To get maximum traffic to your news site from Google News you need to get as many as possible of your listings onto their home page.

Newsknife monitors listings on Google News home page and 10 sub-pages deep.

This table shows appearances Newsknife found at Google News during the month. It shows the % and number we found on the home page and the combined total for the home and 10 sub-pages. The full list of 248 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July:       %     HOME  TOTAL
      1    28.00      7     25  TIME
      2    27.27      3     11  Iran Focus, Iran
      3    24.00    12     50  Christian Science Monitor
      4    18.18      2     11  Middle East Times, Egypt
      5    18.18      2     11  KFVS, MO
      6    18.18      4     22  JURIST's Paper Chase, PA

% increase on Google News home page

Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News home page year to date pre-July. Column 2 is appearances found during July. Column 3 is the % increase for July. The full list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

Year thru
June    JULY
  14      6    43  TVNZ, New Zealand
  39    13    33  All Headlines News
  16      4    25  EITB, Spain
  25      6    24  Bangkok Post, Thailand
  17      4    24  Wall Street Journal, NY
  22      5    23  Khaleej Times,United Arab Emirates
  29      6    21  KABC, CA

New sites found last month

Newsknife noted 166 sites for the first time at Google News during last month. Here are the Top 6 ranked by volume found. The columns of the list are rank, home page appearances, total appearances.

July:
      1      0   154  Easy Bourse, France
      2      0     22  Cumberland Times-News, MD
      3      0     20  The Hankyoreh, South Korea
      4      0     16  Hemscott, UK
      5      0     15  Small Gov Times, Virginia
      6      0     15  Carlsbad Current Argus, NM


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