Google Buries Digg Deal --- Again »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & TechnologyWell, the deal's off again - or it never existed. Either way, any chance of Google acquiring Digg is now dead. While reports were that the deal was on the verge of being finalized, with the total price estimated to be $200 million, it's now reported that Google decided to walk, with Digg being informed at the end of the week.
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ChrisLang1 year, 5 months ago
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We may not be Digging but we will be voting on search results as part of a Social Google in the very near future. AND I expect our voting to be a indicator used highly by Google in results.
One big reason. What is Microsoft really after at Yahoo? Flickr and Delicious! Delicious kicks Diggs ass and is much more of a community rather than a sewer of spam.
I am with you though TE, I do not want to see a bury button on Google. I can handle voting, but that bury button on Digg is 10 times more powerful than 100 Diggs.
We missed front page on a slow day because of a few buries last week on Digg.
If you follow SEO at all you probably know that Goggle has been giving alot of weight to 50 to 100 Diggs on a blog post under niche terms.
I can go to the top of any lightly searched term with 100 Diggs. Propeller and Sphinn will show up right next to your blog post with just a few votes. So....
With that kind of power being given to sources outside Google I expect Google to roll out a Google social system with profiles, voting and fully under their control and give us a clean, no spam, social search engine. In fact I have been predicting this for months on my blog and longer in private.
But then again I am one of those that has been predicting the Digg buyout / integration into Google results.
When you count up all of Diggs problems and especially the bury brigades and spam / self promotion levels, you are very right TE, Digg is not a good choice.
I follow you all the time on Propeller and while I have my gripes about the new interface there is little spam and blatant self promotion, you don't get flamed by idiots and I do not miss Digg in least. In fact, I was hoping Google would buy Digg and clean up the mess because I did really enjoy using Digg in the past.
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ChrisLang1 year, 5 months ago
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It may have been Digg's code which is written in PHP (Google is written in a C variant and runs on BSD) rather than anything else. While I can see the code is well written by the performance of Digg, (if don't break the servers) Google may have walked simply because the code could not be upgraded to Google's standards quickly enough.
A question for the more knowledgable, if you are bought by Google do you have to move to their coding standards AND language?
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