Yahoo Building Buzz with Buzz - A Quick Look at Yahoo Buzz

If you check out Yahoo Buzz’s Help, you’ll find out that Yahoo is trying to depend as much as possible on each item’s Buzz Score to determine where each story fits. Editors do monitor Yahoo Buzz to make sure content is categorized correctly and is not inappropriate. Yahoo will remove any content that violates its Terms of Service. Editors also cherry pick, going through the top content on Yahoo Buzz to choose items to appear on Yahoo’s home page.

Yahoo Buzz is different from Yahoo News in at least two ways. First, Yahoo News is chosen entirely by a team of human editors that work in-house for Yahoo, not volunteers. Second, Yahoo Buzz features content from non-Yahoo Web publishers in addition to Yahoo News stories. Presumably, Yahoo News stories have to earn their way onto Yahoo Buzz just like any other story.

Like any self-respecting Web 2.0 site, Yahoo Buzz has its own blog, the Buzz Log.

A visit to Yahoo Buzz’s home page gives you the impression that it’s being updated all the time, as the top square loads pictures of stories that have been “just added.” Categories for stories include Entertainment, Sports, World, Video, Featured on Y!, and under the More drop-down, Business, Health, Images, Lifestyle, Politics, Sci/Tech, Travel, and U.S. News. That should be enough to keep quite a few news junkies reading for a while. Here’s a screen shot:

I’ll cover what you can find in various sections in more detail on the next page. Right now I’d like to note that the site takes advantage of some interesting tricks that may have been written in JavaScript, or possibly AJAX. At least at first glance, it’s fun to hover over images and entries and see what happens – but I’m getting ahead of myself.

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