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Posted November 3, 2004.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
We monitored 91 election-related news items at Google News this
year. From these we produced three news site ratings: sites highly
relevant for news on George
Bush, John Kerry
and the Presidential Debates.
(Click to see the individual news items listed on those pages.)
Here we bring our three ratings together - with a difference.
The original ratings were for appearances by news sites on the
home page and first sub-page of listings at Google News. This retrospective
rating covers all appearances on the home page and 10 sub-pages
of listings for each news item at Google News.
It's the big one: our ranking of news sites that had high-ranking
AND sheer numbers of election-related listings at Google News.
We ranked 17,210 site listings
Google News usually lists seven news sites on its home page for
each major news item, plus around 30 on each sub-page, all "sorted
by relevance".
Newsknife noted this sort order and awarded points to each site
per appearance on a sliding scale: 307 for being the first listed
site for a news item through to one for last on the tenth sub-page.
We did a little tweaking and added up the score for each site,
giving the site a ranking based on quality and quantity of appearances
compared with other sites.
In all we amassed 17,210 individual listings at Google News by
903 news sites.
And what an interesting performance various news sites delivered
when covering the elections. Several consistently exceeding their
relevance ratings for general news.
It's impractical to show the results per site on this page layout.
Here is a sample chart.
Pay a modest $US10 at left to join Newsknife's Members' Area (more)
and see the full amazingly detailed listing of 903 news sites.
The 3 listings below give you a performance overview. The listings
are...
- 1. Newsknife Top 12 most relevant election news sites from Google
News home page and 10 sub-pages
- 2. Top site, San Francisco Chronicle details
- 3. Our year-to-date (YTD) "home+10" Top 12 for GENERAL
news (details in Members' Area). Compare with the election ranking
to see those sites that deserve your post-election visits; They've
obviously done an exceptional job.
Top 12 election news sites
...based on listings on Google News home page and 10 sub-pages.
The figures in brackets are rankings solely on appearances on Google
News home page.
Sheer quantity of listings when measured down to 10 sub-pages has
clearly elevated positions for The Boston Globe and 3 others. However,
7 sites are in the Top 12 for both ratings.
1 San
Francisco Chronicle (9)
2 Reuters
(1)
3 The
Boston Globe (33)
4 The
New York Times (3)
5 ABC
News (4)
6 The
Mercury News, CA (14)
7 Los
Angeles Times (56)
8 The
Washington Post (2)
9 Guardian
Unlimited, UK (23)
10 Miami
Herald (11)
11 Newsday
(21)
12 CNN
(8)
No.1: San Francisco Chronicle
- We found San Francisco Chronicle 13 times on Google News home
page.
- On the sub-pages we visited we found it on page one 109 times
page two 93 times
page three 88 times
page four 84 times
page five 73 times
page six 57 times
page seven 22 times
page eight 17 times
page nine 25 times
page ten 23 times
- We found San Francisco Chronicle in the lowest position we recorded,
307th place; and in the highest, 1st place.
- In all we found San Francisco Chronicle listed 604 times.
YTD Top 12 for general news
Based on listings on Google News home page and 10 sub-pages:
1 Reuters
2 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
3 ABC
News
4 The
New York Times
5 San
Francisco Chronicle
6 Channel
News Asia, Singapore
7 Atlanta
Journal Constitution
8 Los
Angeles Times
9 Xinhua, China
10 Reuters, UK
11 Boston
Globe
12 Voice
of America
Remember, you can see the full lists of top ranked sites if you
click at left to join Newsknife’s Members'
Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see for each news
site, in amazing detail, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings
for the year to date. These are based on 156,527 individual site
listings by 1923 sites for 828 major news items that we’ve studied
to date.
Visit Newsknife regularly. We rate the news sites.
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