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Posted November 9, 2006.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main Google
News site.
(See our current
standard ratings and
hot election topics.)
Here are the top 15 of 105 sites listed as news sources on
the home page of Google News
for 21 election news items during November 1st to 8th, 2006. This
period neatly straddles pre- and post-election.
After each site name is the number of appearances we found on
the Google News home page.
(See the full list of 105 sites - with the headlines and links
we found- now in the Newsknife Members'
Area. For a modest $US10 you can join at the left of this
page.)
1 SFGate.com 5
2 San Jose Mercury News 5
3 Los Angeles Times 4
4 Monsters and Critics.com 4
5 New York Times 4
6 Reuters 3
7 The Age 3
8 USA Today 3
9 United Press International 3
10 Xinhua 3
11 Bloomberg 2
12 Chicago Tribune 2
13 Daily News & Analysis 2
14 Forbes 2
15 Guardian Unlimited 2
You can see below that the ranking differs if we take into account
all the site appearances Newsknife found at Google News on the home
page AND 10 sub-pages deep of listings for individual news items.
These are the top 6 from a ranked list of 748 sites, which you
can see in the Newsknife Members' Area.
1 Forbes, NY 111
2 Guardian Unlimited, UK 92
3 ABC News 87
4 SFGate.com 80
5 International Herald Tribune, France 73
6 New York Times, 65
Some headlines from our top-rated site, SFGate.com
Line 1 of each news item shows...
- the location of the news item on the Google News home page,
(T1-2=Top Stories, W1-3=World, L1-3=local US).
- the ranked position (1-7) on the home page.
- the approx. time in New York when we saw it.
Line 2 usually shows the item headline letting you click through to
the original item at the news site.
SFGate.com 5
L3, 2, 7:18 pm, Nov 1
Last
Field Poll before vote sees victory for governor
L1, 4, 7:00 pm, Nov 2
'Botched
joke' feeds a frenzy...
L1, 4, 7:00 pm, Nov 5
Mixed
feelings on media call for Rumsfeld's job
L3, 2, 7:00 pm, Nov 5
Candidates
swing through Bay Area...
L2, 3, 7:00 p, Nov 6
White
House Miffed by Fla. GOP Candidate
Follow the headlines
See the 21 top election
headlines we found over the week, in date order....
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Area membership lets you see the ratings for each site in
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