Buzztracker uses algorithms to search through over 110,000 hand-picked web sites, aggregating the most popular and interesting stories on its homepage. It will become part of Yahoo News, which claims to have 36 million unique visitors a month.
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BuzzTracker is the flagship product of Participate Media, which is being bought in its entirety: The entire staff will move to Yahoo, and Participate Media chief executive Alan Warms will become the vice president and general manager of Yahoo News.
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