Comments on: Yahoo! News tracks the buzz

By: Jacques Snyman | Website Design

Jacques Snyman | Website Design — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:34:06 +0000

I’ve been trawling the archives for more information on Yahoo 360, and came across this success story! Great stuff, pity we can not win them all eh!

By: Alan Warms

Alan Warms — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:38:44 +0000

@Serkan: BuzzTracker uses a proprietary algorithm that examines blog posts to determine the most important stories for a particular topic.

@Jason: Not at all — Yahoo! is consistently in the hunt for new technologies and approaches that can extend and be additive to our offering and footprint.
BuzzTracker is an excellent addition to the industry leading Yahoo! News offering.

@Gina Sierzputowski: BuzzTracker uses a proprietary algorithm that examines blog posts to determine the most important stories for a particular topic.

@Peter Rodrick: BuzzTracker works much like a search engine does — providing the best news links for a given topic.

@Jared Raphel: BuzzTracker does have an editorial team in addition to its technology.

Alan Warms
VP & GM, Yahoo! News

By: Ashley T

Ashley T — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:56:35 +0000

My name is Ashley Titus and I am a student in the Googled and Yahooed class at Binghamton University. As an assignment I am to ask you some questions.
- How will the new BuzzTracker not take away the readers of Yahoo News?
-What exactly makes BuzzTracker different from reading the news anywhere else?

By: Lisa Olynk

Lisa Olynk — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:04:53 +0000

“BuzzTracker technology will help improve the breadth and relevancy of our content — regardless of the source.”

Does Yahoo! News take into account the reliability of the information it is passing on as news?

By: Mia Bieman

Mia Bieman — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:29:50 +0000

How is it that Yahoo! determines what is ‘hot information’? Also, the article states that information is available, regardless of the source, so does that mean that none of the news is filtered by Yahoo!?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:02:27 +0000

By purchasing BuzzTracker, is Yahoo! admitting that its branch (Yahoo! News) is inferior to BuzzTracker and needs to be revamped and updated to compete with other News sources?

– Jason
“Googled and Yahooed, Africana Studies
Binghamton University

By: Serkan Kaya

Serkan Kaya — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:07:45 +0000

Hello. My name is Serkan. I am a student in SUNY-Binghamton University and currently enrolled in a course named “Googled and Yahooed” in “Africana Studies” department. What I wonder is how BuzzTracker gets hottest news from 110.000 media channels i.e. does it simply subscribe to RSS feeds of these media resources and show those feeds on a main page?

By: Jared Raphel

Jared Raphel — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:16:45 +0000

I am a student at Binghamton University taking a course entitled “Googled and Yahooed”. I am curious to know if Buzztracker actually has a news team of their own or if the information is found on a search engine?

By: Peter Rodrick

Peter Rodrick — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:15:48 +0000

Is Yahoo! concerned with any possible copyright infringements it may encounter with the methods in which the news is gathered, displayed, and syndicated? If yes, how will you attempt to avoid or remedy any infringements? If not, how does the Yahoo! News service avoid infringing upon copyrights?

By: Gina Sierzputowski

Gina Sierzputowski — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:07:38 +0000

How does BuzzTracker work? Is this similar to Google’s PageRank?

By: Scott Lawton (Blogcosm)

Scott Lawton (Blogcosm) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:05:39 +0000

Thanks for providing a personal view. It's helpful for entrepreneurs to get some insight into specific acquisitions. I included an excerpt plus snippets from several other blogs to create a fairly comprehensive BuzzTracker roundup.

By: miles

miles — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:31:13 +0000

Wow, that’s more than 2.5 times the top 20 US newspaper’s circulation combined.