Now Live Online: "The Upshot" a New Blog From Yahoo News; What People are Searching One Will Be a Tool Used
This post from yesterday (via The New York Times) discussed how searches on Yahoo would help editors "steer" news coverage on the popular Yahoo News site and more specifically, a new Yahoo News Blog.
From the NYT Article:
Yahoo software continuously tracks common words, phrases and topics that are popular among users across its vast online network. To help create content for the blog, called The Upshot, a team of people will analyze those patterns and pass along their findings to Yahoo’s news staff of two editors and six bloggers.
Direct to the Complete NY Times Article
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