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Bec at lower dimension. Center for Citizen Media. (This is the seventeenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To that end, your comments, additional examples, and criticisms are welcome and will be invaluable contributions to this process.) In the previous Citizen Media Business Issues post, we took a look at Web statistics as a means to learn more about your site and the people who visit it.

Now that you know how many visitors you have, what they look at, what sites are linking to you, and so on, the question becomes: how can one increase the performance in one or more of those areas? This post is not about how to falsely inflate one metric or another. Nor is it about how to get traffic unscrupulously. Traffic Rankings Second, marketers will often use them to gauge how much your advertising real estate is worth. Web Tools for Journalists. Five search engines (other than Google) for journalists. Warning: This isn’t a knocking post about Google. Google is great for the vast amount of searches we do, but it’s always dangerous as a journalist to fall into the trap of only ever using one search. If Google does have a problem, it’s the fact that with so many different organisations competing to be on the first page of results, it’s quite possible that the search results for a given term won’t change from one month to the next.

There are an abundance of other search engines around – some good, some bad, some just a little different – but there are a number which I’ve found useful for journalistic purposes over the past few months. Here’s five – and how they could be used. 1. Addictomatic: Best for one glance at your beat Addictomatic is ideal if you have a set brief in your job – be it as a district reporter or a specialist. 2. Launched in a blaze of glory not so long ago, it aims to to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. 3. 4. 5.

Like this: Like Loading... Five search engines (other than Google) for journalists. Google The Anatomy of a Search Engine. Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page {sergey, page}@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Abstract In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. 1. (Note: There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. 1.1 Web Search Engines -- Scaling Up: 1994 - 2000 Search engine technology has had to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. 1.2.

Creating a search engine which scales even to today's web presents many challenges. These tasks are becoming increasingly difficult as the Web grows. 1.3 Design Goals 1.3.1 Improved Search Quality Our main goal is to improve the quality of web search engines. 1.3.2 Academic Search Engine Research 2. 2.1 PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web References. Google News API Developers. Application Requirements Applications that use this interface must abide by all existing Terms of Service.

Most importantly, you must correctly identify yourself in your requests. Requests can only be made on behalf of an end user. All results must be displayed. Results must display "Powered by Google" branding as implemented via .getBranding. Applications must always include a valid and accurate HTTP referer header in their requests. Audience This documentation is intended for developers who wish to add News Search functionality to their pages using the Google News Search APIs. The Developer's Guide assumes a minimal level of JavaScript understanding.

The JSON Developer's Guide supports Flash developers, as well as developers who want to access the News Search API via the REST with JSON interface in other languages. The Class Reference concisely lists the methods, properties, and styles associated with the News Search API. Overview. News Search Engines. If you are still looking for news using "normal" search engines, stop doing it!

You'll find the services below to be a much better way to search for the latest news stories from hundreds of sources on the web. These services provide exceptionally good results for current event searching, because they crawl only news sites and revisit these sites several times per day. Thus, the results are usually focused and timely. Jump to: Award Winners - Other Choices - News Hubs RSS News Feeds & Blog Search Engines Magazines & Periodicals - Specialty Choices News Search Articles Award Winners Google News Provides the ability to keyword search across thousands of news sources found through crawling the web, while also providing the ability to browse categories of news where headlines are assembled automatically.

Yahoo News AllTheWeb News AltaVista News Daypop Other Choices News Hubs. Media Comparison. Since its introduction in the late 1940s, television has been widely accepted into Americans’ homes as a source of news, information, and entertainment. Light television viewers are a difficult demographic to reach, a serious concern given this group is characterized as being younger, more active, and more affluent than the general population. Television’s combination of sight, sound, and motion make it a formidable advertising medium. Today, many viewers consume a limited amount of television while digital video recorders (DVRs) have shifted habits toward ad avoidance. Light television viewers comprise 40 percent of the total television audience, spending less than 90 minutes per day watching TV between the hours of 6:00 AM and midnight.

Big market stations remain critical to broadcast networks, despite an increasing reliance on digital and online content distribution. Television Benefits Television Disadvantages Television is expensive. Cable Television Cable Television Benefits Radio.