searchenginejournal.com— Do you feel that Digg listings should be ranked highly in Google, omitted, supplemented or perhaps penalized a point or two below the initial story they are linking to?
Jan 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
Does someone have sour grapes?"If you look at Digg, from a true standpoint, what does it really offer? It offers a link to the actual story, a 1-2 line overview of the story and sometimes comments from Digg users"And I'm grateful for it, thanks for asking. No more getting duped into visiting spam blogs, recycled news, fake news, "blogosphere" infighting, embedded YouTube videos masquerading as someone else's content. Not only that, but I can check the Upcoming Stories queues in specific categories, and sometimes I see something really neat that never hits the front page.So yes, it belongs in Google. You're just going to have to deal with how convenient it is for everyone else.
Your computer came prepackaged with Digg! Really! Would you mind sharing the source code with the rest of us? I'd love to see what makes Digg tick since your computer CAME with Digg...Also where did you buy your computer? I think I know where I'll be buying my computer next time!/sarcasm
"Since v3, digg has been expanding to poeple outside this geeky young male."But would you disagree that, as a whole, the front page stories do not represent the general Google-using population? Those stories are the ones with the most comments (digg's only advantage to the actual links), and unless those commenters (diggers) accurately/proportionally represent Google's users (which is currently not even a remote possibility), then Digg doesn't need to have its ranking modified in any way.
Why should Digg ride on the coat tales of Google? Why can't we allow Digg to grow into its own life form outside of Google? I really like Google, but I come to Digg for something different, for search results that I wasn't looking for. If Digg is going to go the Google route, it should be in the news section or something more inline to what Digg is. I see no reason for it to be included in my immediate search results.
Speaking from personal experience, I can say that it's a good idea to mix in Digg submissions in Google search results. I get better search results especially when searching for how-to's and tips that deal on a particular subject like web design. If there's something good on the 'net that I would find useful and Digg shows me the way by appearing in Google search results, by all means why not?
Digg is a site that promotes other sites, its purpose is to act as a medium that people can share news stories with ease and not have to spend hours surfing (although it is fun on the odd occasion). So YES it does belong in the google results, however you should also consider it a good primary source (before google) for news stories and the like.
stonedonkeyJan 2, 2007
Does someone have sour grapes?"If you look at Digg, from a true standpoint, what does it really offer? It offers a link to the actual story, a 1-2 line overview of the story and sometimes comments from Digg users"And I'm grateful for it, thanks for asking. No more getting duped into visiting spam blogs, recycled news, fake news, "blogosphere" infighting, embedded YouTube videos masquerading as someone else's content. Not only that, but I can check the Upcoming Stories queues in specific categories, and sometimes I see something really neat that never hits the front page.So yes, it belongs in Google. You're just going to have to deal with how convenient it is for everyone else.
zankyJan 3, 2007
Your computer came prepackaged with Digg! Really! Would you mind sharing the source code with the rest of us? I'd love to see what makes Digg tick since your computer CAME with Digg...Also where did you buy your computer? I think I know where I'll be buying my computer next time!/sarcasm
paullevJan 3, 2007
A delicious sense of infinite regress, self-reflexive paradox about this: Digg digging itself.
mavereJan 3, 2007
"Since v3, digg has been expanding to poeple outside this geeky young male."But would you disagree that, as a whole, the front page stories do not represent the general Google-using population? Those stories are the ones with the most comments (digg's only advantage to the actual links), and unless those commenters (diggers) accurately/proportionally represent Google's users (which is currently not even a remote possibility), then Digg doesn't need to have its ranking modified in any way.
csquidmonkeyJan 3, 2007
Why should Digg ride on the coat tales of Google? Why can't we allow Digg to grow into its own life form outside of Google? I really like Google, but I come to Digg for something different, for search results that I wasn't looking for. If Digg is going to go the Google route, it should be in the news section or something more inline to what Digg is. I see no reason for it to be included in my immediate search results.
kyapjocoJan 3, 2007
Speaking from personal experience, I can say that it's a good idea to mix in Digg submissions in Google search results. I get better search results especially when searching for how-to's and tips that deal on a particular subject like web design. If there's something good on the 'net that I would find useful and Digg shows me the way by appearing in Google search results, by all means why not?
soldanJan 3, 2007
there are google digg results..?google has been going down hill... the results are kinda hit or miss these days
flibiskJan 3, 2007
Digg is a site that promotes other sites, its purpose is to act as a medium that people can share news stories with ease and not have to spend hours surfing (although it is fun on the odd occasion). So YES it does belong in the google results, however you should also consider it a good primary source (before google) for news stories and the like.
skitzzoJan 4, 2007Submitter
Right but doesnt it defeat its purpose when it outranks the original content? If you look at the statistics about how many people actually click through to a second page after the first landing page (on websites in general) you'd be very surprised. Now sure Digg probably passes a larger percentage of those along than most sites but still you're going to lose a lot of traffic that your site deserves.See <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Response_To_Digg_Listings_in_Google_Results">http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Response_To_Digg_Listings_in_Google_Results</a> for my proposed fix...