INQUIRER Interactive has breached the elite list of the 20 most visited
Internet news websites in the world.
In the Dec. 28 rankings of 100hot.com, Inquirer Interactive became the only
Asian site, other than The Times of India, to reach the Internet news big
leagues, climbing a notch to number 20.
The Internet website of the Philippine Daily Inquirer now shares the biggest
page view turnout in the world with sites of respected media organizations,
including CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Fox News, Washington Post, CNet, Discovery
Channel and Yahoo News.
The site even bested other noted Web news services, including the Wall Street
Journal and the San Jose Mercury News to reach this unprecedented ranking.
This week’s increased page views were attributed to the real-time multimedia
coverage of President Estrada’s impeachment trial. In alliance with GMA Network
Inc., Inquirer Interactive provides streaming Internet audio broadcast of the
proceedings through radio station dzBB and a real-time video transmission of the
trial via Cable GMA, the network’s cable news service on Home Cable.
A text-only running account of the impeachment proceedings also contributed
to the higher visitor turnout for the site, as it is now the second most
accessed page after the home page.
GMA Network is the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s partner in the upcoming
multimedia news service INQ7 Interactive.