Saturday, December 22, 2007

Five Years Later: Blogs Beat NYT

I've made some weird bets in my day and collecting on them has always been the challenge but waiting 5 years to make a point is stretching it, in my opinion. The reality is that % years ago Blogging was a new sport with unknown potential ... look where we are now ... the question is where will we be in another 5 years?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 21, 2007 4:13 PM
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Five Years Later: Blogs Beat NYT in Google but Everything More Complicated Than Expected

A five year old bet was settled last night between New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz and Web 2.0 Founding Father Dave Winer. Five years ago Winer bet Nisenholtz that blogs would top the New York Times in Google search results for the top 5 news stories of 2007.

Rogers Cadenhead has done the tabulation and found that Winer, and blogging, have indeed won. Sort of.


According to the Associated Press, the top 5 news stories of 2007 were Chinese exports, oil prices, Iraq war, Mortgage crisis and the Virginia Tech killings. Obviously this is a list for US news markets and not the entire world.

Today, a Google search for those terms brings up a blog higher than the New York TImes for Chinese exports (Blogging Stocks 19th vs. NYT 20th), Iraq War (a blog was 17th, NYT 20th)

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