Back in 2002, the very patient Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google.
The bet: In a Google search of five keywords or
phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank
higher than the New York Times' Web site.
Jason Kottke at kottke.org checked in to see how each side was doing in 2005. Eight news stories were selected and an appropriate Google keyword search was chosen for each one of them.
Top results from 1) "traditional" media, 2) citizen media, 3)
blogs, and 4) nytimes.com were tallied
and an "actual" winner (blogs vs. nytimes.com) and an
"in-spirit" winner (any traditional media source vs. any citizen
media source) were calculated.
For eight top news stories of 2005, blogs were listed in Google search results before the Times six times, the Times only twice.
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