New York Times, #1 On Google News In 2007

Newsknife has compiled a list of the top ranked sites on Google News over the last year, and The New York Times took the top spot after finishing second last year. 2006’s winner, ABC News, fell to fifth, and the Guardian fell completely out of the top 12. The top news sources of 2007:

New York Times
Voice of America
Reuters
Washington Post
ABC News
Houston Chronicle
Forbes
Times Online, UK
Bloomberg
CNN
Los Angeles Times
Associated Press

Most interesting of all is the inclusion of the Associated Press at #12. The AP became a source in late August when Google made a content publishing deal with them. Thusly, AP stories are printed by Google itself, and other newspapers that would have gotten onto the home page are left out (thanks to a new duplication removal algorithm). That combined to, in just three months, put the AP in the top 12. Expect it to place in the […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg