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Posted May 2, 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 109,702 listings by 3942
sites for 689 news items during 2008
Newsknife's standard monthly ratings:
(See also our featured rating Top
U.S. newspaper-related sites)
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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 16 and 29 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
April only:
1 4 3 Voice
of America
2 3 0 BBC
News, UK
3 2 2 The
Associated Press
4 2 1 Houston
Chronicle, TX
5 2 0 Bloomberg
6 1 1 CNN
Year to May :
1 12 6 Reuters
2 5 7 Washington
Post
3 5 6 CNN
4 5 4 Voice
of America
5 4 5 Bloomberg
6 2 6 The
Associated Press
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 837 and 76 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 37 The
Associated Press
2 28 New
York Times
3 25 Voice
of America
4 15 Reuters
5 9 CNN
6 7 BBC
News, UK
Year to May :
1 112 New
York Times
2 79 Reuters
3 68 The
Associated Press
4 62 Voice
of America
5 48 Washington
Post
6 40 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 37 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item, 37 times as
the second source, through to 4 times as the 7th source. The full
lists of 217 and 513 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
April only:
1 The
Associated Press
37 37 21 20 15 9 4
2 New
York Times
28 8 11 10 9 7 4
3 Voice
of America
25 9 8 10 7 6 6
4 Reuters
5 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
6 Bloomberg
Year to May :
1 The
Associated Press
68 83 72 58 47 39 28
2 New
York Times
112 54 42 35 31 22 18
3 Reuters
79 62 41 38 33 36 22
4 Voice
of America
5 Washington
Post
6 Bloomberg
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 1052
2 Reuters 602
3 New York Times 552
4 Voice of America 478
5 AFP 499
6 AllAfrica.com, Africa 480
Year to May :
1 The Associated Press 4155
2 Reuters 2931
3 New York Times 2283
4 BBC News, UK 1862
5 AFP 1890
6 Washington Post 1752
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 123 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Apr: % HOME TOTAL
1 21.01 25 119 Christian Science Monitor
2 17.55 43 245 Al-Jazeera
3 17.02 48 282 Bloomberg
4 15.45 38 246 CNN
5 15.38 2 13 The
Christian Post
6 15.09 8 53 The
Mercury News
% 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 %
10 12 120 ABC Online,
Australia
17 19 112 AllAfrica.com, Africa
15 16 107 Houston
Chronicle, TX
19 15 79 Telegraph.co.uk
20 14 70 Washington
Times, DC
13 9 69 Reuters
India, India
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 326 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.
April:
1 0 27 Australian
News, Australia
2 0 26 WTTE, OH
3 0 26 The
Week Daily
4 0 25 Bombay
News, India
5 1 21 WZTV, TN
6 0 19 Mail
on Sunday, UK
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