Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. It launched on February 26,2008. Yahoo! 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.
Yahoo! Buzz has some categories like Entertainment, Sci/Tech
, Politics, Business, Health, Images, Lifestyle, Sports, and many more. Yahoo! Buzz Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and will get link to their own site. It's means with publishing articles and stories on it will be automatically driving great amount of traffic to our site.
The big benefit for Yahoo! Buzz publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a firehose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks, and they’ve gathered data from some of the linked partners.
