Really? Top three stories on Yahoo News UK right now are "Driver survives 200ft truck plunge", "Labrador 'adopts' abandoned duckling" and "Flying car cleared for takeoff" [1]
By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?
Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
by byrneseyeview on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:34AM
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By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?
ComScore. Yahoo gets an enormous amount of traffic: Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo). And Y recently hired a White House correspondent (http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-hires-first-white-house-correspo...) and has made some other fun hires in the reporting space.
My friends who work in tech don't visit Yahoo. But my extended family in the Midwest sure does!
Full disclosure: I work at Y, but definitely don't speak for Y. If you have ComScore access, you can double-check the "#1" stat I cited.
"Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo)"
From looking at Alexa, I believe your second "Yahoo" should have been "YouTube."
Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
by byrneseyeview on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @03:00PM
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You're right. The "edit" button has expired.
Re:Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
by hyperbovine on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @11:04AM
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http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites
Take your pick.
I think the news is personalized :)
Yahoo have always been into aggregating other news stories into a Yahoo News site (from day one when they syndicated Reuters). Including press releases. It's where they've always been, rather than where they are going.
Yahoo News is still the top news site. Yahoo business/finance is still among the strongest financial properties. The good news is that Yahoo's not going anywhere. The bad news is they're not going anywhere.