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Posted February 2, 2009.
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 35,764 listings by 2811 sites
for 216 news items during 2009, plus regional sites since 2004.
Featured rating:
179 regions for news sites we've found at Google News
This list of 179 regions shows the global distribution of the 9357
news sites found by Newsknife at Google News since 2004.
You can see and visit all 9357 sites grouped by region, in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
This is a great resource for the next time you want to know what's
going on in Azerbaljan or anywhere.
Sites found per region...
Region not identified 36
Afghanistan 3
Africa 8
Albania 1
Alexandria 1
Algeria 5
Angola 1
Anguilla 1
Antigua and Barbuda 3
Argentina 7
Armenia 11
Asia 7
Australia 214
Austria 9
Azerbaijan 10
Bahamas 7
Bahrain 4
Bangladesh 11
Barbados 5
Belarus 5
Belgium 24
Belize 6
Berlin 1
Bermuda 1
Bhutan 2
Bolivia 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3
Botswana 4
Brazil 6
British Virgin Islands 3
Brunei Darussalam 4
Bulgaria 15
Burma 3
Cambodia 2
Cameroon 4
Canada 415
Cayman Islands 3
Chile 4
China 31
Colombia 5
Congo 1
Costa Rica 3
Croatia 2
Cuba 18
Cyprus 6
Czech Republic 14
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1
Denmark 12
Djibouti 1
Dominican Republic 2
Egypt 6
Eritrea 1
Estados Unidos 1
Estonia 2
Ethiopia 4
Europe 4
Falkland Islands 2
Fiji 6
Finland 9
France 89
Gambia 4
Germany 47
Ghana 18
Gibraltar 1
Greece 11
Greenland 1
Grenada 1
Guam 1
Guatemala 1
Guyana 1
Haiti 3
Hong Kong 13
Hungary 13
Iceland 1
India 201
Indonesia 5
Iran 18
Iraq 6
Ireland 65
Israel 53
Italy 39
Jamaica 7
Japan 6
Jordan 4
Kazakhstan 3
Kenya 9
Kuwait 3
Kyrgyzstan 5
Laos 1
Latvia 2
Lebanon 13
Libya 2
Lithuania 1
Luxembourg 2
Macau 2
Macedonia 4
Malawi 2
Malaysia 24
Maldives 4
Mali 1
Malta 8
Mauritius 4
Mexico 9
Micronesia 2
Middle East 5
Moldova 1
Mongolia 2
Montenegro 1
Morocco 1
Namibia 4
Nepal 15
Netherlands + Antilles 46
New Zealand 46
Nigeria 14
North Korea 1
Norway 23
Oman 1
Oslo 3
Pakistan 33
Palestine 3
Palestinian Territories 1
Panama 3
Papua New Guinea 1
Peru 4
Philippines 32
Poland 15
Portugal 3
Puerto Rico 1
Qatar 4
Romania 13
Russia 45
San Juan Islands 1
Saudi Arabia 5
Senegal 1
Serbia and Montenegro 5
Sierra Leone 4
Singapore 14
Slovakia 4
Slovenia 1
Solomon Islands 2
Somalia 6
South Africa 64
South Korea 13
Spain 31
Sri Lanka 19
St. Kitts and Nevis 4
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1
Sudan 6
Swaziland 2
Sweden 13
Switzerland 29
Syria 3
Taiwan 14
Tajikistan 1
Thailand 19
The Vatican 1
Tibet 2
Tobago 1
Togo 1
Tonga 1
Trinidad and Tobago 4
Tunisia 4
Turkey 27
Turkmenistan 3
Tuvalu 1
U.S. Virgin Islands 2
UK 904
US 6023
Uganda 6
Ukraine 14
United Arab Emirates 22
United Republic of Tanzania 5
Uruguay 2
Uzbekistan 3
Venezuela 6
Vietnam 9
Yemen 6
Yugoslavia 2
Zambia 5
TOTAL SITES 9357
There are unusual regional groupings that affect the true totals
per geographical region, for example "Region not identified". If
you visit the Newsknife Members' Area and study these sites in detail
you'll see that many of them could reasonably be included in the
US site total.
Remember, you can see and visit all 9357 sites grouped by region
in the Newsknife Members'
Area. It's a great resource for the next time you want to
know what's going on in Azerbaljan or anywhere. Plus You can see
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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 list 21 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year to Jan 31 :
1 3 2 Reuters
2 3 2 Washington
Post
3 1 4 BBC
News, UK
4 2 2 Reuters, UK
5 2 1 Bloomberg
6 2 1 Wall
Street Journal, NY
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 46 sites is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year to Jan 31 :
1 25 New
York Times
2 23 The
Associated Press
3 21 Reuters
4 18 Reuters, UK
5 18 FOX
News
6 16 Washington
Post
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 New York Post 14 times on the home page of
Google News as the first source for a news item, 8 times as the
second source, through to 2 times as the 7th source. The full list
of 222 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year to Jan 31 :
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
0 119 3 1 6 2 4
2 The
Associated Press
23 16 34 25 32 21 12
3 New
York Times
25 9 12 12 4 5 9
4 Reuters, UK
5 Reuters
6 Washington
Post
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.
Year to Jan 31 :
1 The Associated Press 1565
2 Reuters, UK 954
3 Reuters 846
4 Xinhua, China 821
5 New York Times 603
6 AFP 635
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 125 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jan: % HOME TOTAL
1 24.50 49 200 Christian Science Monitor
2 22.46 135 601 Al-Jazeera
3 18.18 10 55 Bizjournals.com
4 17.65 3 17 Buffalo
News
5 17.48 18 103 Miami
Herald
6 16.67 2 12 AllAfrica.com
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-January. Column 2 is appearances found
during January. Column 3 is the % increase for January. The full
list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Dec JAN %
0 70 0 Bloomberg
0 46 0 Xinhua,
China
0 45 0 BBC
News, UK
0 60 0 Voice
of America
0 34 0 Wall
Street Journal, NY
0 42 0 International
Herald Tribune
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 258 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.
(The list may include existing sites with major new addresses.)
January:
1 1 6 TheInsider.com, CA
2 0 7 Politonomist, Canada
3 0 7 Radio
Srbija, Serbia
4 0 6 Opposing
Views, CA
5 1 5 GlobalPost
6 0 5 LimeLife, CA
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