Yahoo’s new service creates a Buzz

Yahoo today launched a new service that allows users to choose help Yahoo content page.

Readers of blogs and technology of many news sites as DailyTech are familiar with the various services that allow readers to submit stories they find interesting. Any owner of a site that has made its content sites like Digg knows the type of traffic from this type of promotion can generate content.

EWeek reports that Yahoo today introduced a new service called Yahoo Buzz. Buzz allows consumers to choose and discover the most popular content on the web.

Yahoo said that the most voted stores will be considered for placement editorial on the front page of Yahoo. According to Alexa, the Yahoo is the second most visited page on the Internet at this time.

According to Yahoo, the rumor can be about anything, from a story about a major new site to a special bit of a dark site or an intriguing video. The stories are ranked in their Buzz Score - which stems from the search term popularity - the number of times the story is emailed Buzz and the number of votes it receives a story.

The service sounds very similar to Digg or Technorati with the important difference that even with Yahoo shares sinking and trying to defend against a takeover by Microsoft, the company generates a large amount of traffic that other sites that offer similar services, can only dream to match.