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Posted May 1, 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 102,036 listings by 4623 sites
for 963 news items during 2009.
Featured rating:
Top sites covering the president's first 100 days
Newsknife found 196 news items at Google News over President Obama's
first 100 days, where the president was mentioned by name in the
first or second-listed site for the individual news item.
It wasn't difficult to identify these items as being related to
President Obama. We've heard Mrs. Obama refer to The President,
but the media still seem frequently to simply use the magic word
"Obama".
See the 196 top-ranked headlines in date order.
Here are the top 6 of the 33 sites Newsknife found at Google News
as the first source for one or more news items related to President
Obama. For example, we found Reuters as the first source 37 times.
1 Reuters 37
2 The Associated Press 21
3 New York Times 20
4 CNN 14
5 FOXNews 14
6 Christian
Science Monitor 10
See our ranked list of all 33 No.1 sites and their headlines on
the topic, in the Newsknife Members'
Area. You'll also find in-depth versions of our standard
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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 lists of 22 and 40 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
April only:
1 5 1 Reuters
2 1 5 The
Associated Press
3 3 1 Los
Angeles Times, CA
4 2 2 Wall
Street Journal, NY
5 2 2 ABC
News
6 2 1 Christian Science Monitor
Year to May :
1 16 10 Reuters
2 12 13 The
Associated Press
3 7 8 Bloomberg
4 6 6 ABC
News
5 5 5 Reuters, UK
6 4 4 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 lists of 45 and 80 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 30 The
Associated Press
2 22 New
York Times
3 17 Voice
of America
4 17 Reuters, UK
5 16 Reuters
6 15 CNN
Year to May :
1 119 The
Associated Press
2 85 Reuters
3 82 New
York Times
4 55 Reuters, UK
5 53 CNN
6 49 Voice
of America
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 30 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item, 65 times as
the second source, through to 11 times as the 7th source. The full
lists of 245 and 604 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 The
Associated Press
30 65 25 31 24 16 11
2 New
York Times
22 8 11 10 15 9 5
3 Reuters, UK
4 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
5 Voice
of America
6 BBC
News, UK
Year to May :
1 The
Associated Press
119 150 120 96 98 60 49
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
3 290 11 14 17 12 13
3 Reuters
4 New
York Times
5 Reuters, UK
6 Voice
of America
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.
April only:
1 The Associated Press 1427
2 Reuters, UK 706
3 AFP 642
4 BBC News, UK 567
5 Voice of America 433
6 New York Times 456
Year to May :
1 The Associated Press 4750
2 Reuters 2180
3 Reuters, UK 2091
4 AFP 2160
5 Xinhua, China 2059
6 BBC News, UK 1647
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 132 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Apr: % HOME TOTAL
1 27.27 3 11 Minnesota
Independent
2 25.00 3 12 Salt
Lake Tribune
3 25.00 3 12 Catholic
News Agency
4 19.23 55 286 CNN
5 18.60 24 129 CNN
International
6 18.21 55 302 Los
Angeles Times
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-April. Column 2 is appearances found
during April. Column 3 is the % increase for April. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Mar APR %
56 48 86 guardian.co.uk, UK
17 13 76 TIME
66 44 67 Wall
Street Journal, NY
26 17 65 Telegraph.co.uk
45 24 53 CNN
International
104 55 53 Los
Angeles Times, CA
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 167 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.)
April:
1 0 50 WashingtonTV
2 0 26 Tips-Q
GLBT News
3 0 14 Lez
Get Real
4 0 13 Moldpress
5 0 9 Daily
Mail - Charleston
6 0 8 Turk.Net
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