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Re: Digg this: Google to gobble Digg?

profy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:52:06 -0000

I also see that Google views Digg as a nice additional advertising property: it will place its ads on Digg and send extra traffic from Google News and Google Reader probably as well (using recommended subscriptions) so it will have a nice extra revenue source as well. And maybe it will finally make Digg itself more mainstream - something that Digg has been trying to achieve for some time.

Re: Digg this: Google to gobble Digg?

Tim A — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:34:49 -0000

Did they just give up building there own? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/google-buc...

Re: Digg this: Google to gobble Digg?

calamityjake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:56:39 -0000

I think you're right--the combination of Google News and Digg might be a good one. The Google News algorithm works quite well, but adding a bit of humanity to the process might make the results more interesting/useful. Plus, without being integrated into something big (Google, NY Times, MSNBC, CNN, maybe Yahoo is still relevant enough), Digg has a pretty clear ceiling on its usefulness. Once anyone with a google login can play, the data will get a lot more interesting.

Google already does something Diggish on its search pages--results that get clicked on are valued higher than those that don't--but a more explicit voting system might be worth instituting there, too.