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Posted August 2, 2004.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
Here we rank the sites we think are the most relevant for 9/11
news.
Three sites with close links to New York have done particularly
well, offering evidence that Google News listings (and Newsknife
ratings based on them) provide reliable pointers to the best sites
for individual news topics (like 9/11 news).
To create the rating Newsknife analyzed 22 news items at Google
News related to the 9/11 Independent Commission since late March.
Google News usually lists seven news sites on its home page as
sources for each major news item, plus 30 sites on each of several
sub-pages, all "sorted by relevance".
We ranked the 142 news sites we found on the home page and first
sub-page of listings at Google News for the 9/11 news items. We
figure that the majority of viewers don't go below these two pages
of listings.
We awarded each site points per appearance, on a sliding scale
from first to thirty-seventh position.
Our Top 12 from the 142 sites, ranked in order are…
1 The New York Times
3 1 3 4 1 2 1 33
2 The Washington
Post
4 0 3 1 0 0 1 19
3 Newsday
3 1 1 0 0 3 0 19
4 Reuters
5 USA Today
6 CNN
7 International Herald Tribune, France
8 Guardian Unlimited, UK
9 Voice of America
10 Xinhua, China
11 CBS News
12 The Christian Science Monitor
The number of appearances are shown above for our top three ranked
sites. For example, over the 22 news items Newsknife recorded, The
New York Times appeared on the Google News home page three times
as the number one source through to once as the seventh-ranked source,
and 33 times on the first sub-page of listings we recorded.
The strong showing by The New York Times is hardly surprising.
The number three position for Newsday and number seven position
for International Herald Tribune are interesting though. These are
their highest ever relevance rankings at Newsknife.
All three sites have New York connections. Newsday proudly affirms
its New York location. French-based International Herald Tribune
has connections to The New York Times.
Reason suggests that New York-related news sites would likely put
superb effort into 9/11 news items. Google News appears to pick
this up.
It is evidence of the strength and specificity of Google News'
claim that its listings are "sorted by relevance", delivering
a superior news service. Well done!
Newsknife relevance rankings are based on Google News, so we're
pleased to see this as an affirmation of the accuracy of our measurement
of individual news site performance over time.
You can see the full list of 142 sites including the numbers if
you click at left to join Newsknife’s Members'
Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see in amazing detail
for each news site, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings for the
year to date. These are based on 100,000+ Google News site listings
for major stories that we’ve studied to date.
22 9/11 Commission items since late March
Here are the news stories Newsknife used to develop its 9/11 ratings.
The times given are within minutes for New York, as noted at
time and date.com.
- March 23, 9.37 pm
Commission studies terror attacks.
- March 24, 6.27 pm
Clarke: Bush didn't think terrorism urgent.
- March 26, 12.26 am
Hearings: what would a wartime President do?
- March 28, 9.15 pm
Condoleezza Rice defends pre-9/11 readiness.
- March 29, 5.59 pm.
Rice should "do the right thing".
- March 31, 7.06 pm.
Rice testimony will be key.
- April 5, 12.03 am.
Rice to face questions on Clarke.
- April 5, 9.06 pm.
Bush looks forward to Rice testimony.
- April 8, 12.53 am.
Rice faces 9/11 panel.
- April 12, 1.21 am.
Bush says memo received before 9/11 not specific.
- April 12, 10.02 pm.
Bush defends pre-9/11 terror handling.
- April 16, 1.03 am.
Tenet discussions with Bush pre 9/11.
- April 29, 12.14 am.
Bush and Cheney face 9/11 Commission.
- June 16, 11.56 pm.
How Bin Laden started 9/11 activities.
- June 20, 9.21 pm.
No collaboration found between Al Qaeda and Saddam.
- June 21, 8.04 pm.
Did Al Qaeda and Iraq have a relationship?.
- July 18, 11.16 pm.
CIA: Iran assisted.
- July 21, 11.50 pm.
9/11 panel faults congress role.
- July 22, 4.54 pm.
Commission issues final report.
- July 23, 7.32 pm.
Commission urges intelligence overhaul.
- July 25, 7.53 pm.
Iran: 9/11 report election fodder.
- July 26, 5.05 pm.
Bush + security officials review report.
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