Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News

Jun 30, 2009 at 3:55am ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo News was the web's number one choice last week for information about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. In a post on the Hitwise blog, Heather Dougherty shows a chart detailing how the major online News & Media sites fared: Late last week I wrote about how each of the major search engines handled the extraordinary search activity that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett on the same day. Yahoo is in a unique situation as an actual content provider with writers and editors, and some of those staffers were called in from home to help Yahoo cover the break [...]

Filed in: Google: News, Microsoft: Bing News Search, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Stats: Hitwise, Yahoo: News

Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

Jun 27, 2009 at 12:31am ET by Matt McGee

An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson. And just like their counterparts in traditional media, the news divisions of Google, Yahoo, and Bing responded with sometimes extraordinary measures to ensure they were giving searchers the most accurate and current news available. Below, a look not only at the extreme traffic spikes that took place, but also an insider's look at what happened as each search engine -- and Wikipedia -- grappled w [...]

Filed in: Facebook, Features: Analysis, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Search Engines: Wikipedia, Stats: Search Behavior, Top News, Twitter, Yahoo: News, Yahoo: Search

News Media Bites The Search That Feeds It: Hitwise Data

Apr 9, 2009 at 1:35am ET by Matt McGee

This week's battle royale has pitted newspapers and traditional media against Google and online news. If you somehow missed it, the CliffsNotes version is that traditional media (Associated Press, newspapers, etc.) are accusing Internet sites (search engines, news aggregators, etc.) of diverting traffic that should be going to news web sites, profiting off news content in violation of copyright law, and essentially sending newspapers into the financial crisis that many are in today. Amidst all the claims and accusations, Danny took the AP and newspapers out to the woodshed and pointed out w [...]

Filed in: Google: News, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Stats: Hitwise, Yahoo: News

See Yahoo’s New Image Search Ads In Yahoo News

Mar 2, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Barry Schwartz

A couple weeks ago, Yahoo announced they will be going forward with rich ads in Yahoo search. Back then, we only saw a few examples in the raw Yahoo Search results, and they were for mostly video ads. I received a heads up from Gary Price that Yahoo is now showing image ads on Yahoo News. For example, try a search on ipod at Yahoo News and you should see these ads: These image ads come up for many searches at Yahoo News now. Gary tells me he uses Yahoo News daily and he has not seen this before. This looks very similar to how Yahoo displayed image ads on the Yahoo Directory [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: News, Yahoo: Search Ads

TweetNews: Yahoo Programmer Melds News Search & Twitter

Jan 15, 2009 at 7:18pm ET by Matt McGee

TweetNews is a new search engine that uses hot Twitter topics to bring more relevance and freshness to news search. It's a pet project developed by Vik Singh, a member of Yahoo's BOSS team. As Vik describes it on his personal blog, fresh news often doesn't have enough links to rank well in a traditional algorithm. But TweetNews replaces links with Twitter conversations as a signal; news stories that are being talked about the most on Twitter will rise to the top of a TweetNews search. It's an interesting mashup because it plays to the real strength of Twitter -- its ability to report [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: News Search Engines, Top News, Twitter, Yahoo: News

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