Sounds like Blogs won over the New York Times ... or did they? In - Five Years Later: Blogs Beat NYT in Google but Everything More Complicated Than Expected
"..A five year old bet was settled last night between New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz and Web 2.0 Founding Father Dave Winer. Five years ago Winer bet Nisenholtz that blogs would top the New York Times in Google search results for the top 5 news stories of 2007."
The top 5 stories of 2007:
".. the top 5 news stories of 2007 were Chinese exports, oil prices, Iraq war, Mortgage crisis and the Virginia Tech killings. Obviously this is a list for US news markets and not the entire world."
But as pointed out, the terms people use vary - the only fair way to do this test is to get every possible variation of the Keywords used to find each of the 5 stories by users, and look at the SERPS for all of them and then come up with a composite score.
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