Popularity context
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | --Sean |
With so many users visiting Yahoo! News, the News team has access to tons of interesting data points from which they can determine popularity. On their Most Popular page (er, by which I mean, the page containing all of the popular stories, not the page on their site that, for instance, would have been voted Prom King), they can tell you which stories are getting the most views, which photos have been emailed around the most, what people are recommending to their friends, et cetera. One kind of neat thing is that they can also tell you all of those things for yesterday, or the day before, or a week ago, via the Archive module towards the bottom of the page. So if you've been busy at work and need to catch up on all of the top stories from Wednesday, the Most Popular Archive from Sept. 3rd is here for you. Sadly, it looks like there's only a month worth of pages available, but it's still a cool way to leaf through a few slices of time.