Google, Yahoo & Portals Are Top Online News Sources: Study
Mar 15, 2010 at 1:26am ET by Matt McGee
Major news portals -- like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL, and Topix -- are the most commonly used online news sources, beating out the web sites of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times. That's according to the the State of the Media report issued tonight by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The study surveyed more than 2,200 online news consumers between December 28, 2009, and January 19, 2010, and found that more than half of online news readers use a major news portal on a typical day, and among younger news consumers (aged 18-29), more tha [...]
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Live Blogging SXSW: RIP Jeff Goldblum, Truth Vs. Web BS
Mar 13, 2010 at 6:42pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Mediagazer’s Megan McCarthy is presenting a short talk called RIP Jeff Goldblum: Truth vs. Web BS
. With computer in hand, here's a live blogging of it, with some tips for those trying to ferret out truth from fiction.
On June 25 last year, Farrah Fawcett died. Then stories on Twitter and elsewhere about Michael Jackson dying. Huge traffic to news sites before anything confirmed. Big change from in the past when you'd hear things from news sources only after confirmed.
So to set the day off, two big celebrities dies. Huge interest. Many didn't believe Jackson had, then TMZ reported, [...]
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Media News Junkies Meet Mediagazer
Mar 8, 2010 at 11:46am ET by Danny Sullivan
Techmeme is one of my favorite sites. It's my morning "newspaper" that covers technology headlines from across the web. And now it's joined by a new site just for media news, Mediagazer.
I'm thrilled to see the new site arrive, even if it means more reading for me. Much of the "tech" news on Techmeme actually is media news. Consider any story about how Google is interacting with newspapers, or in the ad space or even the rivalry between Google and Bing. Those are media stories, not tech stories -- but tech has been forced to do double-duty.
Mediagazer has a bit more information about its [...]
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Pew: Portals Most Commonly Used News Sites
Mar 1, 2010 at 9:23am ET by Greg Sterling
The Pew Internet project has just released a lengthy report on online news consumption entitled Understanding the Participatory News Consumer. There are no search-specific findings; however it appears from the survey data that "portal websites like Google News, AOL and Topix are the most commonly used online news sources, visited by over half of online news users on a typical day."
Here are some of the high-level findings from the report:
92% get news from multiple platforms on a typical day, with half of those using four to six platforms daily. Fully 59% get news from a co [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Stats: General, Stats: Popularity, Top News
Factery Labs’ New Fact Engine: Just What Real-Time Search Needs
Jan 25, 2010 at 8:00am ET by Matt McGee
Not a month goes by without someone launching a new real-time search engine; but after trying out most of them, there are few I use on a regular basis. Factery Labs is about to change that with today's launch of its real-time fact engine at 1:00 pm ET. Where other real-time search engines focus on hot tweets, popular links, and the like, Factery Labs skips all that and surfaces the facts behind the day's trending news.
(image provided by Factery Labs)
On the screenshot above (you can click for a larger version on Flickr), Factery Labs is showing hot topics like "california storms" an [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Top News
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