AOL-owned Patch, which operates roughly 860 sites across the country but has high penetrations in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, reported its highest-ever traffic day Monday — page views were up 88% from the previous highest day. The Daily Voice, a competing network with 53 sites in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, said traffic Monday was two times higher than normal.
via Sandy Boosts Local Online News Brands | Digital – Advertising Age.
Newspapers accounting for 90% of the circulation in Brazil have abandoned Google News.
Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers says all 154 members had followed its recommendation to ban the search engine aggregator from using their content.
The papers say Google News refused to pay for content and was driving traffic away from their websites.
Google said previously that the service boosted traffic to news websites.
“Staying with Google News was not helping us grow our digital audiences, on the contrary,” said the association’s president, Carlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto.
via BBC News – Brazilian newspapers pull out of Google News.
I don’t often add counters but this one is actually quite fun as it splits by country – obviously not wholly accurate as no geo-detect ever is because of the way traffic is routed by individual ISPs
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