Yahoo! Buzz
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| URL | http://buzz.yahoo.com/ |
| Type of site | Social content website |
| Registration | Free |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| Launched | February 26, 2008 |
Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their's or another person's site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person's website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.
Buzz, also like Digg, promotes the news stories that have been the most buzzed by users and displays them to the visitors of the website on the main page.
Buzz was created as a direct competitor to Digg. Yahoo! created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google or MSN, which are Yahoo!'s largest competitors in terms of search engines that provide services and web features to its customers.
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