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Posted December 4, 2006.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main Google
News site.
These ratings are based on our sample of 438,330 individual listings
at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during year to
date 2006.
For just $US10 click at the left of this page now to join the Newsknife
Members' Area
and see full detailed lists.
The Top News Sites of 2006
Newsknife found ABC News 201 times as the top source for a major
news item at Google News during 2006. This makes it our Top News
Site of the year.
1 201 ABC
News
2 166 New
York Times
3 164 Reuters
4 Washington
Post
5 Times
Online, UK
6 Forbes
7 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
8 Voice
of America
9 Christian Science Monitor
10 International
Herald Tribune
11 Bloomberg
12 CNN
(See the full list of 433 sites in the Newsknife Members'
Area.)
Newsknife has been rating news sites for 5 years. Comparing the
lists of top sites for '04, '05 and '06, we're starting to wonder,
not entirely facetiously, if there's "a natural order of news
government" - sites "born to rule" come what may.
Look above and below at the consistency of the placings. Are there
newcomers smart enough to replace these sites as America's favorite
news? Not in a hurry, it seems.
A University of Ulster
paper regrets that despite years of fervor "the variety
of perspectives offered by the online international news environment
is limited". But it appears that people are largely happy with
the status quo.
And many of our Top 12 news sites have print media associations.
So, maybe printed news will be around for a while too.
Top News Sites of 2005
1 102 ABC
News
2 93 The
New York Times
3 86 Reuters
4 The
Washington Post
5 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 Voice
of America
7 SFGate.com, CA
8 Bloomberg
9 Times
Online, UK
10 International
Herald Tribune, France
11 CNN
12 The
Christian Science Monitor
Top News Sites of 2004
1 89
The New York Times
2 71 Reuters
3 67 The
Washington Post
4 ABC
News
5 Xinhua, China
6 The
Christian Science Monitor
7 Voice
of America
8 CNN
9 Bloomberg
10 San
Francisco Chronicle, CA
11 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
12 International
Herald Tribune, France
Why ABC News?
ABC News rules all Newsknife's Best of 2006 ratings, as it did
in 2005. If you want to find the secret of their success start by
clicking through to these top-ranked ABC News stories from Google
News during November.
Nov 19
APEC
Calls for N. Korea to Quit Nukes
Nov 19
Federal
Agent Among 3 Shot at Md. Mall
Nov 19
Kerry:
'Botched' War Joke Won't Hurt Me
Nov 22
Questions
Surround Secret Service After Bush Daughter's Purse Is
Nov 27
Domestic
Spying Program to Get Internal Review
Nov 28
Hastings
Rejected for Intelligence Chair
Nov 30
Rice
seeks wide Middle East truce to restart talks
In Newsknife's Members'
Area see 509 ABC News headlines we found during November.
They're part of 4000+ in-depth news site profiles. A useful tool
to help you find out what works at Google News.
Our other 2006 top ratings:
Below, in the November ratings there is an explanation of how these
lists are constructed.
Top sites found by Newsknife for the 2 Top Stories on Google
News home page
(Full list of 154 sites in our members' Area)
1 36 26 ABC
News
2 19 14 Bloomberg
3 12 14 Forbes
4 10 6 The
Mercury News, CA
5 6 14 Christian Science Monitor
6 5 15 CNN
International
Top sites found on Google News home page
(Full list 1577 sites)
1 ABC
News
201 145 134 99 117 96 73
2 Reuters
164 122 96 111 83 94 66
3 New
York Times
166 115 103 92 95 83 84
4 Washington
Post
5 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 Times
Online, UK
Top sites found on home page + 10 sub-pages
(From 4504 sites)
1 ABC
News 20087
2 Guardian
Unlimited, UK 14224
3 Reuters
10458
4 BBC
News, UK 8845
5 Washington
Post 8329
6 Forbes
9449
Newsknife's November 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 list below are ranking, appearances noted by
Newsknife as No.1 source in the first Top Story, and the second
Top Story. The full list of 30 sites is in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
November only:
1 2 0 Monsters
and Critics, UK
2 2 0 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
3 1 1 Forbes
4 1 1 All
Headlines News
5 1 1 Times
Online, UK
6 0 2 New
Zealand Herald
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 list of 91 sites is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
November only:
1 10 Forbes
2 8 Christian Science Monitor
3 8 Times
Online, UK
4 7 ABC
News
5 7 Voice
of America
6 6 New
York Times
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 10 times on the home page of Google
News as the first source for a news item, 3 times as the second
source, through to once as the 7th source. The full list of 377
sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
November only:
1 Forbes
10 3 6 3 3 2 1
2 International
Herald Tribune, France
4 3 7 5 6 5 2
3 Times
Online, UK
8 5 1 4 2 1 3
4 Monsters
and Critics, UK
5 Voice
of America
6 Reuters
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
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This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for
each site. The full list of 1675 sites is in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
November only:
1 Guardian Unlimited, UK 926
2 International Herald Tribune, France 687
3 Forbes 762
4 Houston Chronicle, TX 688
5 BBC News, UK 513
6 Reuters 488
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 252 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
% HOME TOTAL
1 22.95 14 61 Christian Science Monitor
2 21.43 3 14 Boston
Channel.com
3 18.75 3 16 Council
on Foreign
Relations
4 18.18 2 11 The
Nation
5 18.18 2 11 progressiveU
6 16.67 2 12 WNBC
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-November. Column 2 is appearances found
during November. Column 3 is the % increase for November. The full
list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Oct NOV %
30 9 30 Euronews.net
22 6 27 Raw
Story, MA
22 5 23 Moscow Times
18 4 22 ITV.COM, UK
18 4 22 Irish
Examiner, Ireland
24 5 21 Daily
News & Analysis, India
50 10 20 People's
Daily, China
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 107 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.
November:
1 0 32 Sky
News Australia
2 1 8 WKRN, TN
3 1 6 Pierce
County Herald, WI
4 0 7 West
Fargo Midweek, ND
5 0 7 Hudson
Star Observer, WI
6 0 5 Cleveland
Leader, OH
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for news of the moment. The 3-month Newsknife Members'
Area membership lets you see the ratings for each site in
amazing detail.
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