Yahoo Buzz Launches With Massive Homepage Traffic To Push It
Written by on February 25th, 2008 in Ajax News.
Yahoo launches the much anticipated Yahoo Buzz tonight - a Digg-like site that takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let’s users vote on stories and push them up to the top of the page.
To see it in action, click on the buzz button at the end of this, or any, of our posts. Like Digg, the more users that vote for a story, via the embedded button or on the Buzz site, the higher the story goes on Buzz.
But there’s another part of Buzz that will get publishers excited - every day a few of the most popular stories will also be features on the Yahoo home page. Yahoo has been experimenting with linking to third party news directly from their home page since last year. In one case, the Buzz team told me, 2 million visitors were sent to Wired for a linked article in the two hours it was on the Yahoo home page.
Of course, many publishers won’t be able to handle that kind of traffic flow. But Yahoo is also prepared for that. Smaller sites will only be linked on a fraction of the total home page views - in effect, Yahoo is turning down the firehose for those that can’t handle it.
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Source: TechCrunch
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