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Yahoo News. #1 Online News Site.

tpgblog.com — The top 3 news sites (Yahoo News, CNN, MSNBC) present different advantages and disadvantages to the news hungry user. A more detailed look at the pros and cons of Yahoo News.

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  • doshindude, on 05/08/2008, -30/+9*****. Everyone knows digg is the best news site.
    • Okari, on 05/08/2008, -8/+4Really? I didn't know Digg wrote up articles.
      • santaliqueur, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8I didn't know Yahoo did either. They publish stuff from the AP and Reuters.
        • Charlotte_Web, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Yahoo publishes articles; Digg links to articles.
          • santaliqueur, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1If they publish articles, those are in the minority. Most of their stuff is from other sources.
      • Berrex, on 05/08/2008, -7/+0z0mg WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
        is u WAIIIAIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAIIII huehueheuheuheuehueheuehueheusheushuehsueh
    • CAPITALLETTERS, on 05/08/2008, -4/+4If lolcats and xkcd are news, sure.
    • tzisc, on 05/08/2008, -3/+4*was
    • PARAPA, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5I would have thought BBC News would have been number one...
    • xen0blue, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2yeah, if you like such reputable news sites as dailykos.com and huffingtonpost.com
  • fcrow, on 05/08/2008, -21/+3I do Yahoo! Do Yoo Yahoo?
    • MattNF, on 05/08/2008, -1/+13No.
      • ComeOutSwingin, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7I do. Is that bad? Should I stop?
        • Szandor, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1*shrugs shoulders*

          I use their widgets instead of Vista's sidebar and I also like their TV Listings page.
    • eatrains, on 05/08/2008, -1/+3What about Yoo-hoo?
      • qwertydvorak, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2yummy. shake well though.
      • d3faultnet, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1brings back elementary school memories....

        1x peanut butter sandwich (i only liked jelly on occassion)
        1x chocolate pudding (vanilla = *****)
        1x yoo-hoo

        hmm, is that all i ate? no wonder i'm so damn skinny...
  • ReidFleming, on 05/08/2008, -11/+6Why not Google News for 'news' and iGoogle for customized geekiness? I admit, though, that I go to Yahoo! for quick sports news.
    • PenileCommander, on 05/08/2008, -1/+3agreed, I always use yahoo sports, not just for news but for the fantasy leagues too
    • nicku, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5I do agree. Yahoo's sports news is their best site. Very clean layout and easy to find info. Their news site is lacking in visual heirarchy and is looking a bit date. I think CNN and NYT have the cleanest easy to read news right now.
    • Cattywampus, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4I sometimes use Google News, but to me, it suffers because it is put together by a computer program instead of by editors. Some of their choices of stories definitely look like they've been assembled by a machine, rather than by a human with an understanding of news.
    • qxrt, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1Google News isn't so much a 'news' site as it is a 'news aggregation' site. There's a subtle difference there. Google News doesn't write its own articles; it only collects them from news sites.

      That's probably why it's not in the list of top three; otherwise, I actually do get most of my news through Google News.
    • qwertydvorak, on 05/08/2008, -1/+2news.google.com is my homepage. it is customized to give me the news i want.

      the only thing i wish i could customize: when i pop something in the search box at the top of the page, i want the default button when i hit enter to be a google search and not a google news search.
  • Games4Life, on 05/08/2008, -16/+61IMO it's better to just go to sites like digg who bring the top news to you.
    • Simonft, on 05/08/2008, -1/+15But you get more up-to-date news on other sites.
      • willk281, on 05/08/2008, -2/+7True and false. Digg won't be the first to break a story, but it's usually the second thanks to it's awesome community (except for you mrbabyman, you are not awesome). Plus the front page cycles more stories through its front page than your typical news site.

        Digg is like hockey: It may take while to figure out what's going on, and while its "goals" (big-time stories) may seem few and far between, once you know how it's played you realize it's the fastest sport on earth. Plus most diggers wear helmets...ok, metaphor: over.
    • MattNF, on 05/08/2008, -4/+21Because everyone knows XKCD and lolcats are top news...
      ...
      Ah, screw it, you're right. XKCD is awesome.
    • j4nj1m3n3z, on 05/08/2008, -2/+10Because the only important news going on is anything that has to do with praising Obama and bashing Hillary.
    • AlanCayce, on 05/08/2008, -5/+3Google Reader ftw. Why just pick one news site?
    • TheGreatBelow, on 05/08/2008, -1/+14Obama (woot), Marijuana, Apple, Scientology, oh MY!
    • Laughsatyou, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5more like huffington post spam.
    • PocketWatch, on 05/08/2008, -1/+11Yeah, if you only want the news that's popular amongst the community. If Digg is your only news source, let me be the first to tell you that Clinton won Indiana.
    • schnikies79, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6Digg is constitantly a day behind in the news.

      BREAKING at digg means it happened yesterday morning.
    • zenerdiode, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4But what if I wanted to know more about the Myanmar cyclone death toll? Is that type of stuff not news to diggers? Or do digger simply don't give a *****?
      • qwertydvorak, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1i, as a digger, simply don't give a *****.
      • ileftfark, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Dude, GTA IV is out, and all you care about is Myanmar???
    • KineticShampoo, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Hardly any news on this site. Just ***** cats and xkcd. Guys I know the site, stop ***** posting it here every single week. Jesus.
  • alfal99, on 05/08/2008, -7/+0IMO it's better to just go to sites like pornub.
  • avenu420, on 05/08/2008, -9/+1Geocities FTW
  • kingbling169, on 05/08/2008, -8/+1IMO it's just better to watch Fox News.
  • Nayson, on 05/08/2008, -11/+40http://www.bbc.co.uk > everything else.
    • qwertydvorak, on 05/08/2008, -6/+1google news > bbc because it includes bbc and others.
      • willk281, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1digg > everything else b/c of the peanut gallery comments.
  • diggester, on 05/08/2008, -6/+1Mirror in case:
    http://www.linkinn.com/static/_Yahoo_News_1_Online ...
    • fkr3, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1Reported to Google for stealing content.
  • limezor2, on 05/08/2008, -5/+17I actually like Yahoo's news =)
    • Neiby, on 05/08/2008, -2/+3I don't think I've ever gone directly to Yahoo News for anything. It would never occur to me to do so. In fact, I would never go directly to Yahoo for anything. The whole Yahoo experience just doesn't appeal to me.
    • fjf314, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I also like Yahoo's news. It doesn't take me all that long to browse through the new front page stories on Digg, so after that I typically check out the news that Yahoo is reporting.
  • AlanCayce, on 05/08/2008, -7/+11Google Reader ftw. Why just pick one news site?
    • tackle, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1> Why just pick one news site?
      Have you ever been to Yahoo News website?
  • muslax27, on 05/08/2008, -5/+4IMO it's better to just watch Fox News....nott
  • datagod, on 05/08/2008, -2/+13Did Yahoo report that they were about to get hammered into share-holder oblivion for NOT selling for $47,000,000,000? Seriously, are they on crack?
  • Zandarrr, on 05/08/2008, -9/+6Digg is my #1 news site.
  • elbarto89, on 05/08/2008, -11/+3***** Yahoo and their tiered ass design

    Digg FTW

    Let the News come to me, rather than looking through a bunch of irrelevant biased crap to get to one good story.
    • schnikies79, on 05/08/2008, -0/+9You want unbiased so you come to digg?

      What internet are you on again?
    • rrc589, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2I like Yahoo's "tired-ass" design. :(

      I'd also like to mention . . .

      Yahoo! Sports > All other sports sites
      • RyeBrye, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I prefer cbssportsline.com's player profile pages because they have fantasy analysis.
  • theotheragentm, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4Sweet! Now my stock...no wait. Still down.
  • darthswarthy, on 05/08/2008, -2/+4Big difference there... Yahoo isn't producing news. They're just aggregating and running wire stories. I guess I'm out of touch, but I would expect the New York Times to be top 3. CNN/MSNBC are mostly repurposing TV news and talking heads, right?
    • fjf314, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I think that's kind of the point with Yahoo, though. It's gathering news from different sources so you don't have to. I guess some people like that and some don't.
  • UNDERSTAR, on 05/08/2008, -5/+4***** all the news sites!!! Digg is my peanut butter to my PB&J sandwich and I cant live without it! :)
    • StolenLamp, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4More like your penicillin... dirty whore.
  • superdog87, on 05/08/2008, -3/+6I use Google News and Digg the most.
  • MisterThePlague, on 05/08/2008, -4/+3I can't believe those are the top three news sites. You'd think Google News and Digg would be in there somewhere. Personally I'm addicted to digg, reddit, and I really like the new http://belowgroundsurface.org

    I'd have to suffer a severe stroke that kills off 30% of my brain cells before I'd visit cnn.com looking for news.

  • Blakechi, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4The summary when hovering over the headlines on Yahoo make it very easy to hone in on the interesting topics. It's something all news sites should adopt.
  • samfishercell, on 05/08/2008, -3/+2For the past two days I've been rocking Times http://www.acrylicapps.com/times/

    It's basically killed off the action of going to check Digg or Cnn (or Yahoo if I had done that...but apparently many people do) for news.
    • MisterThePlague, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1Wow, that thing looks amazing!!
  • tofuMYtofu, on 05/08/2008, -6/+1yahoo is for games and movie show times. period. end of story. everything else is crap.
  • Cattywampus, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1It seems from the article that the "#1" ranking is by audience size. Since Yahoo is one of the most-visited Web sites overall, it makes sense that they could be the top news site based on number of visits or similar criteria that were used.

    People using Yahoo for music, celebrity stuff, searching, etc. can click on news headlines that appear on whatever Yahoo page they happen to be on.
  • willk281, on 05/08/2008, -1/+25Unfortunately, Digg has gatekeepers just like any other mass media.
    Proof? U can haz! Look at mrbabyman's submission history! Everything he submits gets dugg by his little "gatekeeping team," meaning that they can move a story to the front page without the help from "random diggers," who digg based on quality, importance, and general appeal. So to counter what you said, Digg (meaning it's collective users) doesn't bring us the news, mrbabyman does! BTW I love Digg and what it stands for, but people like mrbabyman are ruining this for everyone who shares our vision of Digg as "gatekeeper free."
    Wanna help stop this? bury mrbabyman's *****! If you want, poke fun at him on his stories comments, he gets angry like a fat kid does when you poke their belly without their permission (BTW I always ask permission).

    • mayavada, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1judging by mrbabyman's history, it seems like he is either an internal Digg group staff account, or someone who spends 24/7 on this site. there can't just be one person on that acct.
    • Maver1c, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1I would bury all of his stories but sometimes they are actually interesting
    • zizzy, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1Telling everyone to bury MrBabyMan's submissions is just as bad as him telling people to digg them. If it's interesting, digg it, if not, don't (or bury it as lame if you want). It's as simple as that - who the submitter is shouldn't affect your decision at all, even if some of their stories aren't dugg fairly.
      • willk281, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I would agree with you except that mrbabyman has decided not to play by the rules, and I don't think we can do anything about it by setting a good example. This is a special case where one person directly controls multiple votes, enough to push stories to the front page. If Digg became over run with these types, then the site would turn into a dumping ground for a few pathetic people's agendas. Digg is supposed to reflect the agenda of the users as a whole, and sometimes you find yourself on the dissenting end, but that's okay. Now someone unfairly wields more power than the common digger, and you want to just look away? Do your part, bury this guy! Fine, if a story is really interesting then digg it, after all it's YOUR choice, but bury all that other crap he tries to bring to the front page. I'll be doing my part, ONE digg at a time.
    • WomensUnderwear, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1i am going to bury every comment i see from everyone on digg from now until kingdom come
  • pumacub, on 05/08/2008, -1/+2The problem with these numbers is the way they're reported, CNN and Yahoo both roll up a lot of other traffic into their numbers which MSNBC does not.
  • LeeMaple, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5What no Drudge?
  • SkinnyPuppy, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1Just a few days after the whole yahoo / microsoft fiasco? Interesting.
    Someone inside yahoo looking for some love by dropping the feel good hit of the spring on the internet masses?
  • dimitrisokolov, on 05/08/2008, -0/+0I like http://www.subbmitt.com
  • Jus7in, on 05/08/2008, -4/+3Yahoo! News is a joke. Every headline is posed as a question, without actually telling the reader anything. I stopped going there years ago for this very reason.
    • aboyd, on 05/08/2008, -1/+3On news.yahoo.com right now: 15 headlines above the fold, 2 of which are questions.
  • granolajoe, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Say what you want about the design (I actually liked the old Yahoo News before the most recent update), but the efficiency and simplicity of Yahoo News is what places it above other news sites.

    For about 5 years now, it's the very first place I visit in the morning when I want to get an idea of what's going on in the world, and especially when I'm strapped for time. Its organization of content makes it easy for me to get lots of info from just a brief look before I have to shut down and head out the door.

    On the other hand, sites like CNN think they're doing a great job by using an image and bunching up a lot of headlines to the right. It's information overload, lazy and poorly organized. They don't even try to break up stories as well as they could on the front page without having to drill down by category.

    In summary, Yahoo News FTW.
  • foolfoolz, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Yahoo news is great. The organization and many categories are nice, and yahoo sports news is very well organized. I think it's easiest to find quick sports info on yahoo news than anywhere else, they even have a pretty good amount of stats.

    The old yahoo movies pages are good too, very easily find quick - basic - info about a movie with out the information overload of IMDB.

    front page of yahoo though sucks. who really needs all that crap?
    • Jammerdelray, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I agree, it's got everything, videos for the stories and in depth. Google news would be great once they add more to it.
  • CowCow, on 05/08/2008, -2/+1Your right Yahoo is so much better at bringing you the news than Goggle. After all, they check up on you: http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/1764/print
  • snotrokit, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Hmm MSNBC in third, bet that ***** off Ballmer right now.
  • Kossic, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Hey I used to hate Yahoo too. But Y! Go is the best app on my Blackberry. I get my news, my sports, my stocks, and my pics from flickr. Google comes close for mobile, but they haven't got it together yet.
  • hellahyphy, on 05/08/2008, -2/+2Where is FOX news? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  • bonjourmr, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1www.smh.com.au - Dont bag the Australian news site, a lot of SMH stories develop first and even end up here on Digg often. Its still one of my favourite news sites for a quick update throughout the day.
  • drjekelmrhyde, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Yahoo links news from other sites which sites like Digg and Fark link news to Yahoo
  • Kratos76, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Good Lord, what a bunch of retards. I've never seen such a poor display of comments. Lets just admit that these results are based on the 90% of internet users that don't use digg or any other rss feed for news, don't have a gmail account, and are most likely Not web savvy. Thank you. That is all.
  • smotpoker1, on 05/08/2008, -1/+2Yahoo sucks they are a waste of time .It use to let people talk about the news now all they are is a dime a dozen news page with no interaction from its constituents.On a scale of 1- 10 with one being terrible I give them a 3.They are a ghost of what they use to be.Till they bring back the discussions I will not use their page.To think people rated yahoo as number one because they organize their news for you is pathetic.yucking fahoo! Digg actually stumps yahoos ass and lets people interact to help each other yahoo is a dead page with news thats all it is. Whom ever wrote the polls used ignorant people who now little about the web.Can you say "DIGG SWARM".
  • JasonCox, on 05/08/2008, -2/+2I gotta call BS on this story; Out of everyone I know, only one of those people still uses Yahoo! for anything. I know more people who read FOX than Yahoo!.
    • tackle, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1Your friends != Internet.
      Hope this helps.
  • airj1012, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1This story was written on February 18, 2008 (almost 3 months ago) and the data - "Yahoo News was found to be the #1 online news website in December 2007" (is almost 6 months old). Buried for lame/inaccurate.
  • thebloodvayne, on 05/08/2008, -0/+0OR you can just use RSS and get the best out of every news site....
  • DteK, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1Netcraft has both CNN and Foxnews rated higher than yahoo
  • Nespithe, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1all 3 of them are ***** horrible
  • cobalt8888, on 05/08/2008, -1/+2Well if Yahoo is the biggest "online" news site, what's the biggest offline news site?
  • Sawta, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1I'm still shocked when I learn that people actually go to sites like Yahoo! and MSN for news. When I think "News" I usually think Reddit, Digg (for the several top stories, that haven't been on reddit yet) followed by lesser (Read: slower) sources like, nytimes or various podcasts.
    I just can't imagine yahoo! news talking about anything but "10 ways to fix-up your bathroom!" or some inane 2 paragraph story about some recent car show that was taken from a different site. They just seem tacked on and unloved.
  • tackle, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Ouch. Yahoo! haters on Digg will have a hard time digesting this news.
  • siliconglen, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1Why are the so called top three not mentioned in the winners list here ? http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php#webb ...
    BBC wins the peoples voice award, sounds good to me.
  • tjClassic82, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0The yahoo buzz feature I think it's going to be very cool. Too bad not everyone is allowed to publish yet.
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