Yahoo Buzz – Social News Site Started in India

May 22nd, 2009

Yahoo has started its social news service in India with the name of “Yahoo Buzz”. Yahoo Buzz is launched first time outside the US. India has become first market for Yahoo Buzz outside the US.

Yahoo Buzz is a social news service, where you can submit new news story, read news and even vote for them too. It is almost look alike Digg.

Frazier Miller, head of audience at Yahoo India said “Almost 60% of Internet user in India is less than 25 year old and they have interest in the social networking site like BUZZ.”

This is the second time when yahoo has launched its product in India. Yahoo has launched its new Glue search concept in India before launching it in US market. “Glue Search” can provide text, image and video search on the single page.

Yahoo Buzz has already featured content from over two dozen publishers from India like The Times of India, NDTV, India Today Group, Zee, A2 Media and One India.

You can directly access it from here: http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/

You can submit, discover, comment and vote or any news story on the Yahoo Buzz. There is a term called Buzz Score according to the Yahoo Buzz score is data collected from Yahoo! search log files. The Yahoo! Buzz Index counts the total number of people searching for specific subjects. Individual users and their searches remain completely anonymous.

For complete terminology of Yahoo Buzz: http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/faq/

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