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Posted August 1, 2008.
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 208,202 listings by 5464 sites
for 1308 news items during 2008.
Featured rating:
Obama and McCain at Google News during July
Tis the session when each presidential hopeful tries to capture
the heart of the nation.
Google News delivers masses of readers to the news sites that make
its listings. So it matters how well each candidate is doing there.
Newsknife monitors Google News most days at around 7 p.m. New York
time. During July we found 38 major news items on John McCain and\or
Barack Obama. Here are the sites we found most often as the top-listed
news source for a story that centered on the particular man...
Obama: our top 6 of 19 sites listed for 23 news items,
e.g. we found AP listed for 8 items.
1 The Associated Press 8
2= Los Angeles Times 4
2= *New York Times 4
4= *FOXNews 3
4= Reuters 3
6 *ABC News 2
McCain: top 6 of 15 sites for 15 news items.
1= *New York Times 4
1= Washington Post 4
3= *Los Angeles Times 3
3= The Associated Press 3
5= Reuters 2
5= Wall Street Journal 2
* clicks to a blog
Here are the 38
top news headlines in date order.
You can see the full lists of the above ratings, plus a ranked
list of the 108 news sites (with hundreds of click-thru headlines)
that Newsknife found on the home page of Google News for the 38
news items. Simply join the Newsknife
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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 44 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
July only:
1 5 3 New York Times
2 4 2 The Associated Press
3 1 4 CNN
4 1 2 Bloomberg
5 1 2 CNN International
6 2 0 Washington Post
Year to August :
1 19 10 Reuters
2 11 17 The Associated Press
3 12 12 Washington Post
4 9 12 CNN
5 12 5 New York Times
6 7 9 Bloomberg
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 46 and 104 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
July only:
1 29 New York Times
2 27 The Associated Press
3 17 Reuters
4 14 Los Angeles Times, CA
5 13 Bloomberg
6 12 BBC News, UK
Year to August :
1 201 New York Times
2 152 The Associated Press
3 124 Reuters
4 92 Voice of America
5 82 Washington Post
6 70 CNN
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 27 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item, 16 times as
the second source, through to 13 times as the 7th source. The full
lists of 272 and 791 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
July only:
1 The Associated Press
27 16 33 13 17 20 13
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
4 84 1 5 2 4 4
3 New
York Times
4 AFP
5 Reuters
6 Bloomberg
Year to August :
1 The Associated Press
152 135 160 114 83 79 57
2 New York Times
201 89 70 68 60 39 40
3 Reuters
4 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
5 Voice
of America
6 Washington
Post
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 1242
2 AFP 649
3 New York Times 508
4 BBC News, UK 502
5 Voice of America 507
6 Reuters 500
Year to August :
1 The Associated Press 7789
2 Reuters 4790
3 New York Times 3946
4 AFP 3851
5 BBC News, UK 3385
6 Washington Post 3093
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 158 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
July: % HOME TOTAL
1 26.67 4 15 Atlanta
Journal Constitution
2 23.08 3 13 WXXA
3 23.08 9 39 Bizjournals.com
4 22.76 28 123 Christian Science Monitor
5 20.00 3 15 Moscow Times
6 19.55 104 532 Al-Jazeera
% 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
Jul JUL %
65 39 60 Xinhua, China
52 28 54 Reuters, UK
19 10 53 Detroit Free Press, MI
18 9 50 Financial Times, UK
15 7 47 San Diego Union Tribune, CA
64 28 44 guardian.co.uk, UK
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 263 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 31 The Zimbabwe Times, Zimbabwe
2 0 21 Zim Online, Zimbabwe
3 0 20 Radio
France Internationale
4 0 18 The Standard, Zimbabwe
5 0 16 Wimbledon, UK
6 1 15 Times of the Internet, Ohio
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