News Rating with Yahoo Buzz

Yahoo Buzz is a news rating service similar to the most popular Digg. At both services people can vote for the stories. At Digg only user submitted stories are available for voting, which makes it some kind of a social network. Opposite to this beside user submitted stories Yahoo Buzz determines hot topics based on most popular search terms submitted at the Yahoo Search Engine. Based on user activities like passed on news and votes stories may make the way to the Yahoo Homepage.

To publishers Yahoo Buzz might be important as it has a large reach as reported in an article by ReadWriteWeb.

At Yahoo Buzz now everyone can rate and submit stories. For publishers, bloggers as well as publishing companies, there is a special partner feature to submit content. Website owners may get content for websites by a widget.