Yahoo! News
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| URL | news.yahoo.com |
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| Commercial? | preroll adds 15-30sec |
| Type of site | News |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| Current status | Active |
Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news.
Articles in Yahoo! News come from news services, namely Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, USA Today, CNN.com, CBC News, Seven News, BBC News, and others*.
In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the very first most emailed page on the web.[1] The idea was created and implemented[2] by it's software engineer Tony Tam[3]
Yahoo! allowed comments for each news article up until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were enabled once again on March 2, 2010.[4]Comments were temporarily disabled between December 10, 2011 and December 15, 2011 due to glitches.
In June 2011, Yahoo! News was rebuilt using an internal content management system named: Yahoo! Publishing Platform [5]. The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina[6], Brazil [7], Canada [French [8] and English[9]], Chile[10], Colombia [11], Mexico[12], Peru [13], US [Spanish [14] and English [15]], Venezuela [16], Hong Kong [17], India [English [18], Marathi [19] , Tamil [20]], Indonesia [21], Malaysia [22], Philippines[23], Singapore[24], Taiwan [25], France [26], Germany [27], Italy [28], Spain [29], United Kingdom [30]
In September 2011, Yahoo! News launched the Yahoo! News Activity functionality during the 2011 F8 conference with Facebook.
[edit] Ranking
In April 2009, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites in U.S. users, after msnbc.com and ahead of CNN, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.[31]
[edit] References
- ^ New Economy; Yahoo charts the spread of the news by e-mail, and what it finds out is itself becoming news.
- ^ created and implemented
- ^ Tony Tam, Software Engineer for Yahoo!
- ^ Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back. - New York Times
- ^ Y! News: An inside look at rebuilding the largest news site on the web
- ^ Argentina
- ^ Brazil
- ^ French
- ^ English
- ^ Chile
- ^ Colombia
- ^ Mexico
- ^ Peru
- ^ Spanish
- ^ English
- ^ Venezuela
- ^ Hong Kong
- ^ English
- ^ Marathi
- ^ Tamil
- ^ Indonesia
- ^ Malaysia
- ^ Philippines
- ^ Singapore
- ^ Taiwan
- ^ France
- ^ Germany
- ^ Italy
- ^ Spain
- ^ United Kingdom
- ^ Top 30 global news sites for April 2009 Editor & Publisher Published 20 May 2009.
[edit] External links
- Yahoo! News
- "More on Google News and Yahoo! News"
- "Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories"
- "Columbia Journalism Review News Frontier Database"
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