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The story spread from Bloomberg at 12:01 PM as first to report, then amplified by x.com and 9to5mac, followed by feeds.macrumors, machash, and appleworld.today. Yandori tracked 45 sources with 10 citations showing how the news propagated: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-21-9996613-apple-...


You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...


Interesting to see how this news spread across 45+ media outlets. Yandori tracked the news flow from AP News at 9:31 AM as first to report, then blog.google as the amplifier around 8:07 AM, followed by mashable and other tech sites. You can see the full timeline at https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-22-10232467-say-g...


Interesting to see how this story developed across 60 news sources: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-21-10020950-takea...


You can see how this story spread across 52 sources over 21 hours here: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-22-10318781-amazo...




Here is a clear example (sad news) but you can see how it breaks (via twitter here) and then flows: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2025-12-18-3003874-nascar...


I have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.


I run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries.

Some findings from the dataset:

Geography (top countries):

United States: 253,589

India: 34,127

Canada: 20,263

United Kingdom: 18,701

Pakistan: 10,124

(392 total countries)

Industries:

E-commerce: 164,010

Adult & Gambling: large category overall

Gambling (L2): 84,353

News & Blogs: 49,424

SaaS products: 39,105

Niches (L3):

Online Casinos: 81,608

Clothing: 33,553

Niche SaaS tools: 31,881

Home Decor: 31,273

News & Journalism: 29,750

Platforms (detected on ~295k sites):

WordPress: 116,250

Shopify: 84,407

WooCommerce: 42,615

Squarespace: 25,328

Wix: 23,598

Webflow: 3,049

TLDs: .com: 435,622

.store: 38,223

.org: 26,474

.online: 23,422

.site: 22,919

.ai: 6,167

Happy to answer questions about methodology, accuracy, crawling, classification, or detection heuristics.


81,608 new online casinos in one month! Presumably most of these are affiliate sites funneling new players.

And 164,010 new e-commerce sites. Does this mean that drop shipping is still a viable business?


I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...


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