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Cricinfo Circinfo
By Will 4 years ago, at the start of April Add your comment below
Don’t misspell Cricinfo when you type it into your browser, will you?
Ouch!
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16 Responses to “Cricinfo Circinfo”
April 5th, 2006 at 11.45 am
April 5th, 2006 at 12.27 pm
Don’t worry, Elliott. It’s only permissible to mutilate helpless infants without their permission, so if you’ve made it this far intact, you’re probably safe 
April 5th, 2006 at 1.04 pm
Don’t put cricinfo at all! Go to Yahoo! Cricket!
April 5th, 2006 at 1.09 pm
Imposter! Heathen! Ignore the ignoramus 
Cricinfo rules the roost. Scribbler, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t Yahoo! just pull AFP and PTI stories from the wires? You don’t have Editorial staff do you? And don’t tell me you don’t work for Yahoo coz I knowwwww you do.
Jag, back me up here – even as an ex-Cricinfo employee who critises us, Yahoo! Cricket doesn’t have half a stump/leg to stand on compared to us.
April 5th, 2006 at 1.16 pm
Sure I Work for Y!. Why do you think i put that comment? There’s much more to experience on Y!… more than just news, comments, articles and the mundane stuff on Cricinfo. And yes, the ‘pulling’ of news is what we do. there at least we admit it unlike this: http://scribbler.wordpress.com/2005/11/25/will-the-real-author-please-stand-up/
April 5th, 2006 at 1.22 pm
Well I can confirm this with Anand tomorrow when I get into work but I’m 99% positive he would have written the article himself. We don’t rip other sites, we write all our content ourselves. We do use AFP, but only for information – we don’t simply put the article up verbatim, ala Yahoo.
April 5th, 2006 at 1.23 pm
Explain, though, why Yahoo is better because your admittance that Y! pull copy from the wires really doesn’t back up your claims of superiority at all. We write all our own editorial, all our features (at least two per day). No, sorry, we rock, Yahoo don’t. I’m not being funny, am just interested as to why you feel Y! offer a better site.
April 5th, 2006 at 1.24 pm
Ooooh! Fight!
April 5th, 2006 at 1.25 pm
It’s called aggregation… gives wider choice to the visitors. More informed, less opinionated.
April 5th, 2006 at 1.26 pm
Given that there are more news providers avaialble with us, there is a wider range of news available for the enthusiast. Sure Cricinfo has more info when it comes to stats. But the common cricket enthusiast wants quick news and scores etc at a glance… he wants scorecards that work!
April 5th, 2006 at 1.31 pm
Well we’ll have to disagree there. News aggregation over quality editorial content? The latter wins for me – and did so before I joined CI. Read these two stories on Vaughan’s knee:
Yahoo
http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/05042006/4/vaughan-won-t-rushed.html
Cricinfo
http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/243356.html
Our piece on Cricinfo offers more depth. There is a background to Vaughan’s knee trouble, a mention of Simon Jones, a very recent photo and an all-round depth to ours. Yours is, well, boring and not very well written!
I’m not attacking you, just comparing the differences.
Let’s throw it open. Who prefers Yahoo to Cricinfo and why?
April 5th, 2006 at 1.34 pm
http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/cr/ that is the UK Cricket site. And this is the India one: http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/index.html.
Some differences there, I think… eh?
April 5th, 2006 at 3.29 pm
You got to be kidding if you say yahoo cricket is better than cricinfo. No cricket fan would want just “news”…we prefer the reading the diverse opinions and discussions that happen on cricinfo. No other site has such a variety of good cricket writers. If all we wanted was scores and info, there are tonnes of sites who do the same as yahoo cricket.
Yes, cricinfo scorecards are a little slow and buggy, but scorecards are not even half the reason why people visit cricinfo.
Anywayz….doesnt look like mr. scribbler is gonna agree…its his opinion….i do think that most cricket fans would prefer cricinfo to yahoo cricket.
Peace to all!
April 5th, 2006 at 4.00 pm
No comments. I think there’s a market for content producers _and_ content aggregators. Yahoo! rarely [if ever] produces its own content. It isn’t their focus area & competence. Cricinfo doesn’t produce _all_ the content you see on the site. Most of the stuff without the author byline is a rewrite of a wire report or a story spotted by an eager sub on a competing website
Aditya: Nice to see a fellow Yahoo on a cricket blog! The ‘Cricket 24×7′ linked from your blog is run by me and a friend!
April 6th, 2006 at 1.53 am
If I need any info on anything cricket-related, Cricinfo’s the first and obvious destination and then look around on the few personal shortlisted online rags.
April 6th, 2006 at 1.59 pm
Will, looking at the Yahoo and CricInfo articles on Vaughan that you put up as example, the core report is obviously from the same source in both cases (probably PA at an intelligent guess). What the sub at CI has probably done is given it a re-write and added a couple of pars on Jones and Giles probably taken from other wire reports. I’d imagine CI pays the agencies for use of their material in the same manner as all other media outlets (including Y!UK). There’s absolutely nothing wrong with CI doing that, but it’s not necessarily quite as original as you make out.
As for comparisons… CricInfo is an apple, Yahoo!UK is an orange, Yahoo!India is a mandarin. What Jagadish@yahoo says about the differing focuses of the two businesses is absolutely correct.
Anyway, to put in my two lira’s worth, I’d never go to a portal like Yahoo or MSN for news content in a million years, and I only visit CricInfo when I’m doing research on something. I’m more likely to go to the BBC for breaking news and scores, and to a newspaper site in a relevant country for any detailed follow-up.
That’s not to berate CricInfo which carries out a huge and important role on the internet, and does it pretty well these days after a fairly crap period in the year or so after the takeover by Wisden.
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