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Posted June 2, 2008.
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 141,936 listings by 4513 sites
for 878 news items during 2008
Featured rating:
Reporting the natural disasters in Myanmar and China
During May, Newsknife monitored Google News for coverage of the
Myanmar cyclone and the earthquake in China. We found 26 news items
with 5566 individual listings on the Google News home page and up
to 10 sub-pages deep.
Of the 43 news sites we found on the home page of Google News for
news items on these disasters, only one, Xinhua, was an Asian news
site, (and that at 17th in our ranking).
Newsknife doesn't catch every news item at Google News, but this
statistic is odd considering that we did find 5566 listings for
the 26 stories, and some of those listings were by Asian news sites.
We would have expected to find several of them on the home page
of Google News.
Here are the 26 top headlines
we found at Google News for the topic. You can click through to
the stories at the sites.
And here are the top 12 of the 43 sites Newsknife found on the
home page of Google News for this topic, and the number of times
we found each one...
1 The Associated Press 23
2 New York Times 19
3 Reuters 16
4 Monsters and Critics.com 11
5 International Herald Tribune 10
6 AFP 7
7 Aljazeera.net 7
8 Bloomberg 7
9 CNN 6
10 Washington Post 6
11 BBC News 5
12 CNN International 5
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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 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 14 and 30 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
May only:
1 3 5 The
Associated Press
2 3 3 Washington
Post
3 2 2 Reuters
4 2 1 Bloomberg
5 2 1 CNN
6 2 0 Los
Angeles Times, CA
Year to June :
1 14 8 Reuters
2 8 10 Washington
Post
3 5 11 The
Associated Press
4 7 7 CNN
5 6 6 Bloomberg
6 5 4 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 lists of 87 and 157 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May only:
1 38 The
Associated Press
2 35 New
York Times
3 14 Washington
Post
4 13 CNN
5 12 Reuters
6 11 BBC
News, UK
Year to June :
1 84 New
York Times
2 105 The
Associated Press
3 91 Reuters
4 70 Voice
of America
5 62 Washington
Post
6 53 CNN
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 37 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item, 18 times as
the second source, through to 10 times as the 7th source. The full
lists of 241 and 611 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May only:
1 The
Associated Press
37 18 22 25 8 6 10
2 New
York Times
35 13 7 14 10 6 8
3 Reuters
12 12 13 11 8 9 2
4 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
5 Washington
Post
6 BBC
News, UK
Year to June :
1 The
Associated Press
105 101 94 83 55 45 38
2 New
York Times
147 67 49 49 41 28 26
3 Reuters
91 74 54 49 41 45 24
4 Voice
of America
5 Washington
Post
6 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
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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.
May only:
1 The Associated Press 1216
2 Reuters 701
3 New York Times 648
4 AFP 578
5 Washington Post 472
6 BBC News, UK 424
Year to June :
1 The Associated Press 5371
2 Reuters 3632
3 New York Times 2931
4 BBC News, UK 2286
5 AFP 2468
6 Washington Post 2224
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 143 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May: % HOME TOTAL
1 27.27 3 11 WCAX
2 20.56 22 107 Christian Science Monitor
3 18.75 3 16 Bizjournals.com
4 18.51 57 308 Al-Jazeera
5 15.75 20 127 CNN
International
6 15.38 2 13 Black
Star News
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-May. Column 2 is appearances found during
May. Column 3 is the % increase for May. The full list is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Apr MAY %
21 21 100 Reuters, UK
19 11 58 MSNBC
44 25 57 Monsters
and Critics, UK
28 13 46 Xinhua,
China
22 10 45 Reuters
India, India
21 9 43 US
News
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 326 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.
May:
1 0 42 The
National, Arab Emirates
2 0 16 WXVT, MS
3 0 14 Tribune
Chronicle, OH
4 0 13 ChattahBox, MA
5 0 9 KAALtv.com, MN
6 0 8 KP.RU, Russia
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