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Posted August 3, 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 181,519 listings by 5926 sites
for 1773 news items during 2009.
Featured rating:
Strong newcomers year-to-date
Here are the top 12 sites found by Newsknife at Google News for
the first time during 2009, to the end of July. You can see the
full list of 1422 newly-found sites in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
The sites are ranked by volume found at Google News on the home
page and 10 subpages deep. The columns of the list are rank, home
page appearances and total appearances.
Wikipedia is the outstanding newcomer. It shot to prominence at
Google News during the Iranian elections and hasn't looked back.
It is remarkable enough that Newsknife has found so many appearances
by Wikipedia at Google News. It is even more remarkable that they
have all been on the Google News home page.
1 146 146 Wikipedia
2 2 285 MyStateline.com, IL
3 0 231 WashingtonTV
4 1 144 Politics
Daily
5 0 133 TPMDC
6 2 106 GlobalPost
7 1 106 9&10
News
8 0 106 Ma'an
News Agency,
Palestinian Territories
9 0 93 NTDTV
10 0 90 Indopia, India
11 0 81 Tips-Q
GLBT News
12 2 76 Opposing
Views, CA
In the Newsknife Members'
Area you can see our ranked list of the 1422 newcomer sites,
plus 84 Wikipedia July headlines, ranked as we found them at Google
News. For example:
Jul 5 Wikipedia: Governorship
of Sarah Palin
Jul 28 Wikipedia: Arrest
of Henry Louis Gates
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Our standard monthly ratings:
Top Blogs
Blogs found on Google News home page + 10 sub-pages deep. Rated
by volume + Google News relevance ranking. Blogs listed here may
link to one of many blogs at that site. Visit the Newsknife Members'
Area to see the full list of blogs and blog headlines
July:
140 blogs and their 1241 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Los Angeles Times 139
2 New York Times 122
3 USA Today 81
4 Wall Street Journal Blogs 88
5 Reuters Blogs 68
6 CNN Political Ticker 67
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 18 and 46 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
July only:
1 5 8 The
Associated Press
2 5 2 Reuters
3 2 2 Washington
Post
4 2 2 BBC
News, UK
5 2 2 CNN
6 2 0 MSNBC
Year to August :
1 26 29 The
Associated Press
2 23 16 Reuters
3 10 13 Bloomberg
4 10 6 Washington
Post
5 6 9 ABC
News
6 7 6 Reuters, UK
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 40 and 101 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
July only:
1 39 The
Associated Press
2 30 Reuters
3 29 New
York Times
4 22 Washington
Post
5 20 CNN
6 13 Los
Angeles Times, CA
Year to August :
1 219 The
Associated Press
2 168 New
York Times
3 156 Reuters
4 96 CNN
5 94 Washington
Post
6 78 Los
Angeles Times, CA
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 39 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 11
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 229 and 863 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
July only:
1 The
Associated Press
39 57 34 33 26 12 11
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
1 96 2 4 3 2 7
3 Reuters
30 8 14 17 13 9 6
4 New
York Times
5 Washington
Post
6 CNN
Year to August :
1 The
Associated Press
219 324 226 178 161 103 92
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
7 514 21 29 30 25 30
3 New
York Times
168 63 79 71 62 58 40
4 Reuters
5 Washington
Post
6 BBC
News, UK
Master subpage sources
If you click to see all the articles for any Google News story
you'll find a master subpage that usefully gathers listings into
groups. This table shows the number of appearances per site that
Newsknife found on master subpages last month as a source for major
news items.
We found Associated Press 10 times as the first source there through
to 2 times as the 7th source. In total we found them 225 times on
master subpages. The full list of 487 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
July only:
1 The
Associated Press
10 24 22 20 18 2 225
2 Washington
Post
14 7 8 6 9 3 224
3 Reuters
18 9 14 12 5 11 141
4 New
York Times
18 11 12 4 6 1 0
5 Huffington
Post, NY
0 0 0 0 0 24 66
6 Wall
Street Journal, NY
8 5 2 3 6 8 0
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.
July only:
1 The Associated Press 1585
2 Reuters 767
3 Washington Post 702
4 New York Times 632
5 Xinhua, China 736
6 BBC News, UK 503
Year to August :
1 The Associated Press 8845
2 Reuters 4461
3 New York Times 3509
4 Washington Post 3445
5 AFP 3572
6 BBC News, UK 3160
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 135 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jul: % HOME TOTAL
1 100.00 84 84 Wikipedia
2 34.95 115 329 Al-Jazeera
3 25.00 3 12 Hollywood
Reporter
4 25.00 3 12 Buffalo
News
5 21.43 3 14 Detroit
News
6 20.00 30 150 CNN
International
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-July. Column 2 is appearances found during
July. Column 3 is the % increase for July. The full list is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Jun JUL %
62 84 135 Wikipedia
19 8 42 Examiner.com, CA
17 6 35 All
Headlines News
49 16 33 NECN, MA
97 30 31 CNN
International
35 9 26 Politico, DC
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 229 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.)
July:
1 0 29 Gaea
Times
2 0 16 Ma'an
News Agency
3 1 10 Titans
Radio
4 0 10 AmmoLand.com
5 1 8 MTV.com - Newsroom
6 0 9 Havana
Times
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