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pages.google.com — The giant had to shut off registration today due to too many people signing up for their new Google Page Creator software! "...Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new sign-ups as we increase capacity..." :P
chiss361- 717 diggs
- digg it
- azharc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice digg!
- achille, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5About .... 6 hours after digg posted it, it showed up on slashdot. Everyone on slashdot claimed it was "slashdotted". =D
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was it because of Digg or just that the registration demand was too high?
- SpitF1re, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ achille, no way dude, it was posted 13 hours later on /., digg beat them by 13 hours stright.
good job digg! - chiss361, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg I would say, almost 3000 digg's on the story, for a beta product. And you it's only because it's Google!
- mazboot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Always digging sheer presumption and hubris-- the less bridled, the better. Unless 'Digg Effect' has already become a ubiquitous term for server overload, the way 'Kleenex' has become generic for 'facial tissue'.
- bacchus101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well I got my account.........not that I will ever use it.
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mazboot * well stated.
- Ultraviolet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its true, it was first posted on digg before anywhere else, /. has it on their homepage since 2 hours ago or something, thats nothing new, digg is way way much faster in reporting the news.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0report this crap.digg and /. both had this story btw
- DrWho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they both had the story, and when I finally looked at the story on digg it was posted at about the same time on /.
while I am a digg fan and /. is bore fest, nobody should claim a victory here - jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yay digg!
- thedak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7digg is faster because it doesn't have to go through moderators. When did this story show up on the front page vs. when it was on slashdot? (I don't even read slashdot anymore.. but the bashing of the opposing sites thing is getting really damn old) Digg and Slashdot serve different purposes, why does it have to be some kind of epenis competition? Slashdot tends to have intelligent discussion about the story, Digg tends to have AOL kiddies screaming "LIK ZOMG TAHT IZ SO C00L!!11cos(360)". They serve different purposes, relax and just enjoy the stories for what they are.
- csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While I'm sure Digg played a part in the traffic, I'm inclined to believe that there was just as much, if not more traffic coming from many other sources. It's not like this was a small story...
- flea2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just a thought.... Do you think they will try to make this into myspace?
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"way way much faster"
double-plus ungood. - dargon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not exactly news, but i'd say it was a combo of digg+slashdot = server began smoking
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems to me that Google probably had a predetermined amount of beta-users in mind, and once the last spot was filled it flipped to the "give us your email" page. IIRC, they did the same thing with gmail, and then started the invite thing.
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0LAME
- knid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Oh, and digg cures cancer, gives you a better sex life, and makes you rich.
Yay digg, the source of all that is good in the universe.
:rolleyes:
Stop circle jerking about the so-called "digg effect". - crazypip666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol thedak cos(360)
- uioreanu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don't buy all these "we're down of too much traffic" crap. It's been happening too much with new applications; it's probably planned to be so. it's just another part of the buzz. don't fall for it
- randomc0de, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Alexa traffic rank for Slashdot: 287
Rank for Digg: 491
Digg got it first (and I love it for that), but Slashdot probably tipped it over the edge. - baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"lol thedak cos(360)"
ditto XD - drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg is the best thing for slashdot and /. for digg. They are an echo chamber. Check their traffic on alexa in comparison. Just like Google V MS and MS v Sun and MS v Apple etc they all are rivals that actually help propel each other. Like East v West Siiiiieda! competition junkies.
- athenius22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1thedak: "Digg tends to have AOL kiddies screaming "LIK ZOMG TAHT IZ SO C00L!!11cos(360)"
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That cracked me up... cos(360) - DisembarkedOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3wow get over yourselves.
these pothetic self masturbatory posts are pointless
"digg is the best" "digg is the bomb"...
digg is not the only place for this kind of information around the world. - aptiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1actually, This was a combined hit from digg, slashdot and about every self respecting geek on the internet....
- aljitech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I hope it dosn't become the next myspace.
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http://aljitech.com/ Digg's Players - jeylux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i jerked off to this post.
thanks. - hummingbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Perhaps it was diggdotted?
- nature, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I hope it dosn't become the next myspace."
Digg is already well on its way there. - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What a little ***** -- boy too bad I didn't think of that. Pretty much everyone who reads the homepage (Google Page Creator) saw that when they visited the story!
"Shhhh.. be werry werry quiet. I'm hunting wamers!" - liquidedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was every site in the world posting about something new that Google launched. Neither Digg or Slashdot can be completely credited.
- SpeedyG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wouldn't say that Google got JUST dugg, as much as they got both dugg and slashdotted and otherwise zerg rushed at the SAME TIME. KEKEKEKE...
- SorenG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google has thousand of employees, so it could just be them Digging it here and posting on it, as a way to bring it attention. Ya never know.
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Digg is already well on its way there."
Digg is nothing like myspace... He was talking about google page creator. - nature, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems to be populated by the same 12 year olds.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0go digg
- sporty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wouldnt' brag. What if google pointed traffic at digg on it's front page by default.
- nsolo1717, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"why does it have to be some kind of epenis competition?" ~~thedak
hahaha , that was funny, never heard the slang epenis - MrMickMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh please stop the circle jerk. This was linked from all over not just nerdNests like Digg and slashdot.
The same thing happened with analytics a few months back - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0me love digg long time
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same thing happened when they put up Google Analytics. I think they probably had a predetermined number of registrations in mind for today.
- hadem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Lame++
- stark23x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw it on three tech sites before Digg. Within 6 hours of going live it was linked by THOUSANDS of sites. It was a Google project...anyone who believes Digg shut it down all alone is dreaming. Of course it was going to be huge...it;s frigging Google giving something away.
- achille, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They had a fantastic launch with Gmail. The launch was slow and the "Invites" were slowly given away. Thus the service never got diggdotted.
- sung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah, digg and slashdot isn't the only places taht this story was posted.
- kilps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One would have thought thaty would have learnt from the whole analytics episode ... and the whole thing isn't that good - needs some sort of dynamic content to make it worthwhile ..
- ownedbytheman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, I had no idea that digg was the only website forwarding people to that link. I mean, that must be it for the submitter to headline this story this way, right?
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