Here is an interesting story about Yahoo I noticed this morning. Internet users can now vote for their favourite type of news content on Yahoo, similar to the social book marking tool Digg.
We use Digg and Delicious all the time as they are a great way to share content. In fact we have recently done that with some of EFH's news coverage recently.
Yahoo has added the new functionality to its site so that users can highlight the most popular news stories and blog posts from anywhere on the internet. The popularity is solely based on user votes and their search patterns.
I have just had a look around myself and the top three searches were:
- American Idol
- Victoria Beckham
- Craziest tax deductions
All of this makes me feel most of the traffic is actually from the US. However, I still think it could be interesting to see what people are currently reading and searching for at the moment wherever they are based. I would expect Google to launch a similar service soon.
The new Yahoo Buzz extension actually counts the 'BuzzScore' for news stories, videos, pictures and blog posts. The story/content with the most votes is then considered for placement on Yahoo.
Yahoo vice president Tapan Bhat comments:"Yahoo Buzz builds on the recent success of the home page of Yahoo, and improves consumers' favourite online starting point by combining popular stories with the wisdom of real people to determine what is most engaging and relevant."
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