Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Yahoo launched Yahoo! Buzz - one of the main Digg & Reddit competitor


The company Yahoo! launched a social news site Yahoo Buzz, which is an analogue of Digg.com . On Yahoo Buzz will be posted news of 100 specially selected sources.

By voting place visitors can change the ranking of news. The most popular materials are announced on the main page of Yahoo!.

Voting - not the only factor affecting the position of news. Yahoo! analyses the list of queries to its search engine to determine how much these news are popular. If the issue is indeed valid, the news gets extra points.



The popular social news site Digg, where anyone can add news started in 2004. Monthly Audience resource is 12.5 million visitors.

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