What’s the Buzz from Yahoo?
Search Giant Yahoo has just relaunched the Beta of Yahoo! Buzz as a revamped Social Content experience, despite the ongoing saga between itself and Microsoft.
The site which is seen as just another Digg Clone by many people, does have an added twist though. The most popular stories will get to be featured on the Yahoo home page (the most popular homepage in the world).
Yahoo uses a ranking system called a Buzz Score which takes into account things like trends in search queries on Yahoo! Search, and the number of times that content is shared with friends by email. This then generates a “Buzz Score” (just above the Buzz Up button on the content).
At the Top of the Buzz homepage there is a section called Just Added. This module contains the latest content that has recently been submitted to Yahoo! Buzz from publishers.
At the moment the site is in ‘Beta’ which means that while all the features are being tested, Yahoo will not accept any new publishers to submit stories to the site, other than the pre-approved news publishers that were invited to take part by Yahoo.
To help prevent anyone abusing the voting system you must be logged in to be able to vote on any of the stories submitted. To log in you just need your ‘Yahoo! ID.
Please leave a comment regarding this post. I would love to hear about all your experiences of using Yahoo! Buzz.
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March 29th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Why is it called “a search giant” when it brings no traffic?
It should be called “a search engine” at most
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Yahoo is getting desperate. They just can’t compete with Google, etc. I really see the Microsoft acquisition happening soon. They would have been smart to have taken the deal offered in February. Still, this may be interesting.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I cant recall when I last searched for something using Yahoo. Yet I do use other Yahoo services.
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June 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Yahoo really needs to drum up their business. I mean, really, something as basic as their hosting lans should be excellent. but they suck. and they’re also expensive.
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Everyone always copies each other, I am a fan of digg and when I see others trying to do the same thing I laugh cause it just isn’t as good as the original. Although I would think that the way digg is now, there will be some real contenders.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Yeah if you manage to get your site / article on the frontpage of Yahoo … man that’s gonna give you a traffic boost from hell. Better hope you have a big badass server ready to take the flow of visitors or all the work was for nothing !!!
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July 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
The posts are related and enlightening. I love the speed at which the site is updated. Enlightening articles upon this topic, you can find things you didn’t know previously.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Too bad i didnt come across this blog before. Great stuff you got here. Thanks.
December 5th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I agree with Christian that Yahoo is basically copying Digg’s model. The problem is, what is Yahoo doing to make it better? It seems like there just creating a clone and hoping to get a share of the traffic to it.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I totally agree with the others commenters. I don’t use yahoo to search at all and I don’t personally know anyone who does. I’m not sure why it would still be the “most popular home page in the world”.
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January 24th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
It’s a good way to drive traffic, especially if your target market is US market.
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March 26th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Hello,
I use Yahoo buzz and its good to know they are improving it.
Rob
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April 7th, 2009 at 6:43 am
good article , thanks
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Right now I make Yahoo Buzz as my top 5 niche study sites.
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April 28th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Well done, great post!
May 7th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I would have to totally agree with you.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Yahoo was the leading search engine sometime back, but now people have moved towards google due to the quick results provided by Google.
I prefer Yahoo for searching as these day Google is DEAD and the pages does not open !
June 27th, 2009 at 11:51 am
This is a great post and was very useful information. It kind of adds a Twitter element to Yahoo! Folks will have their clocks out, timing the right spot in the day when their “just added” will best connect with their market for the most amount of time.
It very much is in line with what Carol Bartz has been talking about with Yahoo!, making it a social hub of sorts and not just search.
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August 26th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I use YahooBuzz ’till now. But you know what,… the best service from Yahoo that you can get a traffic is Yahoo Answer.
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August 31st, 2009 at 4:43 am
I think Yahoo Buzz is fantastic, whenever I have a new article I submit it to Buzz and it spreads like wild fire – awesome.
September 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
yes, you are right and now the Buzz is getting mature.
btw, where have you been ?
September 10th, 2009 at 5:50 am
I dont like buzzing , but it is better than the hotmail nudge which drive me made when someone do it
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