14 DAY TRIAL // The news competition gathers more and more companies from the entire internet because the need of information is huge. Currently, a lot of firms are developing news solutions but it seems like the leader positions are available only for the internet giants. Nowadays, multiple newspapers and publications are trying to expand their articles in the online mode but Yahoo News, Google News, MSNBC and AOL News remain the most powerful news providers. Recently, some of them were affected by serious problems with lawsuits filed by newspapers or other companies that sustained they use articles without authorization but the news services are still some of the most popular.
That battle for the most powerful news solution is very interesting because it can provide us only more detailed information or alternative ways for reading the news. As you might know, Google already developed an audio version of the news service that can allow blind people to read news.
Although the Google News service gets more and more popular, it wasn't even included in the most visited online solutions rank that was published by comScore, an internet audience measurement company that provides useful statistics about internet companies.
"After several years of tight competition at top, Yahoo News pulled away some from the pack among news websites in traffic, according to year-end figures from comScore Media Metrix.
The leader board is still dominated by the same four sites as in previous years, a Big Four of Yahoo News, MSNBC, CNN and AOL News. But Yahoo News, whose parent company had a rough year on Wall Street, put some distance between itself and its rivals by growing in unique visitors by 16% last year. The others were flat.
Overall, Yahoo News averaged 31.4 million unique visitors a month in 2006. Second place MSNBC had 25.9 million, followed by CNN (21.3 million) and AOL News (21 million). In 2005, Yahoo News led MSNBC by only 1 million visitors per month," Journalism reported.
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