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Posted August 6, 2007.
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 156,846 individual site
listings by 2920 sites for 1048 news items during 2007
NOTE: Every year Newsknife takes a mid-year break. This
year it's during July. All reports here are up to the beginning
of July.
Featured rating:
Changes at the top since 2004
It's interesting to track the changes in the list of the top 12
sites Newsknife has found most often as the first source for news
items over the years.
This table shows the ranked position Newsknife gave these sites
for all of 2004, 2005, 2006 and year to July 2007.
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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1
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2
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2
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1
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New York Times
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2
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Houston Chronicle
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3
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4
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4
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3
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Washington Post
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7
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6
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8
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4
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Voice of America
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9
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5
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5
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Times Online, UK
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6
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Forbes
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4
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1
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1
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7
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ABC News
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9
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8
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11
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8
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Bloomberg
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2
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3
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3
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9
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Reuters
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10
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FOX News
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11
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Los Angeles Times
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6
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12
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9
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12
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Christian Science Monitor
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5
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Xinhua
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11
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5
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7
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Guardian Unlimited
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12
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10
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10
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International Herald Tribune
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Reviewing the above, Newsknife ranks the following five as the
most upwardly mobile at the moment...
1 Houston
Chronicle
2 Times
Online, UK
3 Forbes
4 FOX
News
5 Los
Angeles Times
These are Newsknife rankings, not Google News rankings. However,
our findings have been consistent over the years and we believe
them to be a reasonable indication of the performance of news sites
at Google News.
Placing amongst the top 12 as the first source for news items at
Google News brings plenty of traffic to the top sites. The question
for any site with a significant change in ranking is "Why?".
See all our ratings in detail since 2001 now in the Newsknife Members'
Area. Click at the left of this page to join.
Our standard monthly ratings:
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 list below are ranking, appearances noted by
Newsknife as No.1 source in the first Top Story, and the second
Top Story. The full list of 200 sites is in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
Year to July :
1 40 28 ABC
News
2 25 19 Bloomberg
3 16 17 Forbes
4 11 15 Christian Science Monitor
5 14 5 SFGate.com, CA
6 8 15 Voice
of America
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 list of 236 sites is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year to July :
1 67 New
York Times
2 54 Houston
Chronicle
3 54 Washington
Post
4 40 Voice
of America
5 37 Times
Online, UK
6 30 Forbes
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.
Year to July we found New York Post 67 times on the home page of
Google News as the first source for a news item, 52 times as the
second source, through to 27 times as the 7th source. The full list
of 892 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year to July :
1 New
York Times
67 52 39 40 35 28 27
2 Washington
Post
54 37 34 32 29 33 27
3 Houston
Chronicle
4 Voice
of America
5 Bloomberg
6 International
Herald Tribune, France
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for
each site. Detailed lists of the top 200 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
Year to July :
1 Guardian Unlimited, UK 7748
2 Forbes 4415
3 Houston Chronicle 4356
4 ABC News 2737
5 CBS News 2173
6 New York Times 2233
Visit Newsknife regularly to discover the most relevant news sites
for news of the moment. The 3-month Newsknife Members'
Area membership lets you see the ratings for each site in
amazing detail.
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