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Posted April 5, 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 111,266 individual site
listings at Google News by 3584 sites for 576 news items during
year to date 2006.
Featured rating: new sightings at Google News during March 2006
Newsknife is introducing a new regular rating: listing the sites
we found at Google News for the first time during the previous month.
We noted 136 previously unsighted sites at Google News during March.
Here are the Top 6 ranked by volume found. The columns of the list
are rank, home page appearances, total appearances.
1 0 94 Examiner.com, CA
2 0 44 InTheNews.co.uk, UK
3 1 22 ISRIA, DC
4 0 13 Al-Manar, Lebanon
5 1 12 KABOBfest, DC
6 0 10 Trading
Markets, CA
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These Top 6 sites alone make an intriguing mix...
* ISRIA aims to "identify, analyse and assess any
issue related to your safety and your
enterprise's and/or institution's".
* Al-Manar is a Lebanese TV station.
* KABOBfest is a"forum for Arab-Americans and
friends to complain about politics and other
serious topics in intelligent and funny ways"
* TradingMarkets.com states that it is "the
world's largest site for traders".
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 24 and 104 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
March only:
1 4 3 Reuters
2 4 1 ABC
News
3 2 1 Forbes
4 2 1 Telegraph.co.uk
5 1 3 Independent,
UK
6 1 2 Times
Online, UK
Year to date:
1 29 21 ABC
News
2 13 7 Bloomberg
3 7 8 Kansas
City Star, MO
4 9 2 SFGate.com, CA
5 5 10 The
Christian Science Monitor
6 7 4 Reuters
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 72 and 280 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
March only:
1 18 ABC
News
2 15 Reuters
3 14 Forbes
4 11 Times
Online, UK
5 8 Christian Science Monitor
6 8 The
New York Times
Year to date:
1 148 ABC
News
2 121 Reuters
3 112 The
New York Times
4 84 The
Washington Post
5 80 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 61 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.
During March we found ABC News 18 times on the home page of Google
News as the first source for a news item, 14 times as the second
source, through to 8 times as the 7th source. The full lists of
281 and 1097 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
March only:
1 ABC
News
18 14 5 7 5 9 8
2 Forbes
14 13 11 6 12 1 7
3 The
New York Times
8 9 13 6 9 7 4
4 Reuters
5 Times
Online, UK
6 Bloomberg
Year to date:
1 ABC
News
148 104 102 71 85 68 57
2 Reuters
121 89 68 88 56 66 50
3 The
New York Times
112 73 85 55 74 62 55
4 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
5 The
Washington Post
6 Voice
of America
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 1557 and 3584 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
March only:
1 ABC News, 1627
2 Forbes, 1076
3 Houston Chronicle, TX,
734
4 Reuters, 650
5 Xinhua, China,
615
6 BBC News, UK, 613
Year to date:
1 ABC News, 13669
2 Guardian Unlimited, UK,
9324
3 Reuters, 6397
4 Xinhua, China,
5474
5 BBC News, UK, 5332
6 The Washington Post,
5064
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 210 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
March:
1 25.00 5 20 MTV
2 20.00 7 35 Slate
3 20.00 21 105 Christian Science Monitor
4 18.18 14 77 TIME
5 18.18 2 11 Inter
Press Service
6 15.38 2 13 CBS
4, FL
Big % increases on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-March. Column 2 is appearances found
during March. Column 3 is the % increase for March. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Feb MAR %
37 22 59 Canada.com
32 14 44 TIME
14 6 43 Moscow Times
20 7 35 Hindu, India
65 23 35 Monsters
and Critics, UK
187 64 34 Forbes
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