Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million
Yahoo is purchasing a news aggregation site called BuzzTracker for $5 million according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.
Buzztracker uses algorithms to search through over 110,000 hand-picked web sites, aggregating the most popular and interesting stories on its homepage. It will become part of Yahoo News, which claims to have 36 million unique visitors a month.
Buzztracker is somewhat similar to Techmeme and its affiliated aggregator sites, such as Memeorandum. BuzzTracker’s site features top stories on news,… Continue Reading