Friday February 25
Test of relevancy for news media sites
This Wired.com article suggests that a news media site's linkability is one of the key factors affecting its relevance to the internet and the blogosphere. The more people link to a news media site, the more popular Google judges it to be. And Google indexes more pages of news media sites that are popular.
So one of the ways to test the relevancy of a news media site to the internet and the blogosphere is to count the number of pages that Google has indexed. Here's my table of them. (I have no idea why Yahoo News has so few pages indexed -- perhaps because of its Google News rivalry?)
| Name of news media site | URL | Index count |
| People Daily (China paper) | http://people.com.cn/ | 2,390,000 |
| BBC News | http://news.bbc.co.uk/ | 2,260,000 |
| Slashdot | http://slashdot.org/ | 2,240,000 |
| The Guardian | http://guardian.co.uk/ | 1,570,000 |
| CNN | http://cnn.com/ | 1,370,000 |
| New York Times | http://nytimes.com/ | 1,230,000 |
| Reuters | http://reuters.com/ | 806,000 |
| China Daily (China paper) | http://chinadaily.com.cn/ | 782,000 |
| Times Online | http://timesonline.co.uk/ | 704,000 |
| Washington Post | http://washingtonpost.com/ | 675,000 |
| Salon | http://salon.com/ | 507,000 |
| Time Magazine | http://time.com/ | 447,000 |
| LA Times | http://latimes.com/ | 420,000 |
| Fark | http://fark.com/ | 396,000 |
| Yahoo News | http://story.news.yahoo.com/ | 389,000 |
| ABC News | http://abcnews.go.com/ | 258,000 |
| Fox News | http://foxnews.com/ | 239,000 |
| International Herald Tribune | http://iht.com/ | 141,000 |
| Wall Street Journal | http://wsj.com/ | 91,200 |
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