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Posted January 2, 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 474,922 individual listings
at Google News by 4635 sites for 1976 news items during year to
date 2006.
Featured rating:
Strong newcomers during 2006
Here are the top 12 sites found by Newsknife at Google News for
the first time during 2006. You can see the full list of 1288 sites
in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
The sites are ranked by volume found at Google News on the home
page and 10 sub-pages deep. The columns of the list are rank, home
page appearances and total appearances.
Sites we found earlier in the year will have an advantage in volume
found. It may not be substantial though. For example, we found 10
of our first 20 during May or later.
We first sighted Gulf News at Google News during May 2006. We saw
it 796 times between then and the end of 2006, including 24 times
on Google News home page.
1 24 796 Gulf
News, United Arab Emirates
2 9 594 newswire.co.nz, New
Zealand
3 7 595 Examiner.com, CA
4 12 532 Sky
Valley Journal
5 13 528 African
News Dimension, S.Africa
6 3 496 InTheNews.co.uk, UK
7 0 482 Malaysia
Sun, Malaysia
8 0 450 Easy
Bourse, France
9 4 410 Calgary
Sun, Canada
10 6 334 The
News -International,Pakistan
11 13 235 Toronto
Daily News, Canada
12 3 220 CBS
47, CA
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 36 and 167 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
December only:
1 1 2 The Mercury News, CA
2 1 2 Voice of America
3 1 1 Christian Science Monitor
4 1 1 Canada.com
5 1 1 The Age
6 1 1 Financial Times, UK
Year 2006:
1 36 26 ABC News
2 19 15 Bloomberg
3 12 15 Forbes
4 11 8 The Mercury News, CA
5 7 15 Christian Science Monitor
6 5 15 CNN International
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 103 and 455 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
December only:
1 10 Times Online, UK
2 9 Voice of America
3 8 Forbes
4 8 Houston Chronicle, TX
5 8 New York Times
6 7 The Mercury News, CA
Year 2006:
1 204 ABC News
2 174 New York Times
3 165 Reuters
4 128 Washington Post
5 123 Times Online, UK
6 115 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.
Last month we found Forbes 8 times on the home page of Google News
as the first source for a news item, 11 times as the second source,
through to 2 times as the 7th source. The full lists of 415 and
1642 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
December only:
1 Forbes
8 11 4 4 2 3 2
2 New York Times
8 6 7 5 5 2 3
3 Houston Chronicle, TX
8 3 7 3 7 5 0
4 International
Herald Tribune, France
5 Voice
of America
6 Times
Online, UK
Year 2006:
1 ABC News
204 150 135 103 121 99 74
2 New York Times
174 121 110 97 100 85 87
3 Reuters
165 124 101 113 85 99 71
4 Washington
Post
5 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 Forbes
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.
December only:
1 Guardian Unlimited, UK 1310
2 Houston Chronicle, TX 857
3 Forbes 863
4 International Herald Tribune, France 689
5 BBC News, UK 611
6 Reuters 524
Year 2006:
1 ABC News 20593
2 Guardian Unlimited, UK 15534
3 Reuters 10982
4 BBC News, UK 9456
5 Forbes 10312
6 Washington Post 8714
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 266 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Dec: % HOME TOTAL
1 30.77 4 13 West Fargo Midweek
2 23.81 5 21 Asian Tribune
3 20.31 13 64 New York Daily News
4 18.87 10 53 Christian Science Monitor
5 18.18 2 11 MTV
6 16.67 3 18 WBIR-TV
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-December. Column 2 is appearances found
during December. Column 3 is the % increase for December. The full
list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Nov DEC %
16 15 94 Playfuls.com, Romania
17 7 41 Gulf News, United Arab Emirates
16 5 31 Asian Tribune
16 5 31 NY1, NY
18 5 28 Earthtimes.org
22 6 27 ITV.COM, UK
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 128 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.
December:
1 0 50 HULIQ, NC
2 0 25 Tothecenter.com, NY
3 1 12 My Fox Colorado.com, CO
4 0 13 TLTnews.net, Russia
6 0 9 maltaStar.com, Malta
7 0 9 Turkmenistan.ru, Turkmenistan
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