Blogs vs New York Times, blogs win

by Patrick Altoft on December 21, 2007 / no responses

In 2002 Dave Winer had a bet that by 2007 blogs would outrank the New York Times on Google for keywords related to the top 5 news stories of the year.

The bet expires this year and, you guessed it, blogs were the winner.

The only problem with the study is that it is more a representation of which site happened to have the keywords in the title tag.

Also guess which site ranked best for all the queries? Wikipedia.

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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.

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