Introducing "Headline Buzz" to Chipwrapper
When Chipwrapper first started, underneath the search box on the homepage was a short list of links called "Topical Searches". It was made up of the kind of searches people would be making when looking for the big news stories of the day.
However, it needed maintaining and updating, and was basically editorialising.
Well, Chipwrapper isn't about editorial content, it is about helping people find the content that has been written elsewhere.
Last week, therefore, I replaced the topical searches links with a new list of links - "Headline Buzz".
Every hour Chipwrapper retrieves the top ten stories via their RSS feeds from the BBC, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Independent, ITN, Sky News, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.
It then analyses these to see which are the most popular words being used in the headlines across all of these news stories.
The top seven words appear on the Chipwrapper homepage as the "Headline Buzz".
The "Headline Buzz" is also available as an RSS feed.
At the moment it lists any word in the feed that has been used in 3 or more headlines across the 110 headlines that Chipwrapper has examined in the previous hour.The feed gives you the word, the number of times it has appeared, and a link to a Chipwrapper search results page for that word.
