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Posted August 29, 2006.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main Google
News site.
This rating of news sites covering the Lebanon-Israel conflict
is based on our sample of 17,175 individual site listings at Google
News by 1048 sites for 75 news items starting July 12, 2006. (Also
see our general ratings for this month.)
Below you can see...
- good sites to visit for future
Lebanon-Israel news. They were
tops
at Google News on the subject.
- Middle East sites that gave local
viewpoints.
- 75 headlines we found as the No.1
sources for conflict news
items at
Google News. Click to the original
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develop.
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Top sites & headlines
Here are the top 12 of the 201 news sites that we found on the
home page of Google News for Lebanon-Israel news items.
We found BBC News there more than any other news site. We've included
samples of their headlines as some of the very best reporting of
the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Listings explanatory note:
The site name line shows the number of appearances we found on Google
News home page and up to 10 sub-pages deep.
News items are shown in date order.
Line 1 of each news item shows...
- location of item on Google News home page
(T1-2=Top Stories, W1-3=World, L1-3=local US)
- ranked position (1-7) on the home page
- approx. time in New York when we saw it
Line 2 shows the item headline, usually letting you click to
the original item at the news site.
1 BBC News 21, 399
T2, 3, 7:00 pm Thu Jul 13,
Israel
pursues strikes on Lebanon
W3, 3, 7:00 pm Thu Jul 20,
In
quotes: Annan on Mid-East crisis
W2, 3, 7:00 pm Wed Jul 26,
How
UN Lebanon post was bombed
T1, 2, 7:00 pm Sun Aug 6,
Mid-East
press eyes Lebanon resolution
W3, 3, 7:00 pm Sun Aug 6,
People
across Lebanon feel engulfed in the war
T1, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Aug 13,
Lebanon
falters over truce detail
2 Forbes 18, 492
3 Monsters and Critics.com 17,
367
4 Houston Chronicle 15,
540
5 Bloomberg 13,
290
6 ABC News 12, 497
7 International Herald Tribune 11,
143
8 Seattle Post Intelligencer 11,
101
9 Voice of America 11,
203
10 Times Online 10,
169
11 Boston Globe 9,
135
12 San Jose Mercury News 9,
223
Top Middle East sites & headlines
Newsknife found 1036 listings by 48 news sites from Bahrain, Egypt,
Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen.
53 of the listings were on Google News home page. The rest were
in sub-pages of listings.
The countries with the most listings found were...
Top countries:
1 Israel 390
2 United Arab Emirates 241
3 Qatar 199
4 Lebanon 72
5 Iran 69
6 Kuwait 65
Here are the top 12 of the 48 Middle East sites, with sample headlines.
The listing details are explained in the general listing above.
1 Khaleej Times, United
Arab Emirates 6, 186
W2, 3, 7:00 pm Mon Aug 7,
“40
killed” statement retracted...war goes on
W2, 3, 7:00 pm Wed Aug 16,
Lebanese
blast Arab rulers, praise Iran, Syria
2 Jerusalem Post, Israel 5,
123
W3, 1, 7:00 pm Sun Aug 13,
The
Region: Syria and Iran get off scot-free
W3, 1, 7:00 pm Tue Aug 22,
Urgent
talks called over Mideast force
3 Ynetnews, Israel 5,
101
W3, 1, 7:00 pm Thu Aug 10,
Ceasefire
in works
4 Ha'aretz, Israel 4,
104
W1, 1, 7:00 pm Thu Jul 27,
EU
official: Israel misinterpreted...declaration
5 Aljazeera.net, Qatar 3,
117
W3, 3, 7:00 pm Tue Aug 15,
Syria:
Resistance shows Arab strength
6 Gulf News, United Arab
Emirates 53
7 Peninsula On-line, Qatar 41
8 Kuwait News Agency, Kuwait 39
9 International Middle East Media
Center,
Palestinian
Territories 38
10 Arutz Sheva, Israel 35
11 Times of Oman, Oman 30
12 Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran 29
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