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Saturday, March 08, 2003
Sun.Star website now 2nd most popular RP site
THE Sun.Star network website at www.sunstar.com.ph enjoyed a surge in visitor traffic from here and abroad the past days since the Davao city bombings, making it the second most popular Philippine website.
News items from the Sun.Star Davao, a daily newspaper in Davao that is affiliated with the Sun.Star publications network, were posted daily on the website since last Tuesday, March 4, the day of the bombings. Alerts were posted as they came in, with the website editors changing the banner story twice or thrice a day for the benefit of Filipinos here and abroad hungry for Davao information.
Nini Cabaero, Sun.Star Management Inc. editorial services head, said this shows how the website is fulfilling its mission of bringing Filipinos here and abroad closer to home. The Sun.Star website is the only daily source of Philippine regional news on the Internet as other sites mostly carry general news.
The Sun.Star website last March 6 ranked as the second most popular in the Top 40 Philippine websites listing of the Cebu-online.com that tracks website popularity among users of the Alexa Web search toolbar. Sun.Star continued to hold the same ranking the next day, March 7. It ranked higher than other Philippine websites such as those of the Philippine Star, Yehey!, Abante, ABS-CBN, Manila Bulletin and Manila Times. It was topped only by the merger-website of media giants Inquirer and GMA 7.
The same survey also ranked the Sun.Star website as the 5,697th most popular worldwide as of March 6. There are roughly a billion webpages worldwide. It was the highest ranking so far for the Sun.Star network website after it was first uploaded on May 10, 2000.
The website is Internet home of the different Sun.Star newspapers in Baguio, Pangasinan and Pampanga in Luzon; Cebu, Dumaguete, Bacolod and Iloilo in the Visayas; and Davao, General Santos, Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga in Mindanao.
It has a free Sun.Star e-mail newsletter where the day's news summary is delivered to subscribers' e-mail boxes regularly. To subscribe yourself to the service, send an email to sunstarlist@sunstar.com.ph
The Sun.Star Management Inc. editorial services unit manages the Sun.Star Network Exchange, the office that runs the website and other network online and wireless services. (Sunnex)
(March 8, 2003 issue)
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