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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Digg's search engine needs some major work anyways. Period...
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Yeah digg's search engine is horrible. I've searched for the exact title of things and it doesn't find it.
- Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14You know even though thats not pertinent to this topic, it's a good point.
why is it one can edit comments for 2 minutes, but can't just delete them? - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Digg has the most useless search engine I've ever seen. I've never ever found my intended result before the 5th results page. I have more luck finding Digg pages by querying the entire web on Google.
- techdandy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I wish I could delete comments on digg! posted on the wrong thread. sorry.
- Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10not sure how reliable that site is, i did a search on my name (which is not a typical name) and all the typical pertinent articles came up as they do on google, and they were all rated - 15 votes, 14 votes, etc etc....
i really find it hard to believe that many people have searched for me already on a site i'd never even heard of until your posting. - banderbe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Uhm, no.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, like how many times we have to suffer through when someone asks a really obvious question and suddenly there are six responses that have to be buried because they all answered the same thing? This thread is off topic, but you're both right, it's simple and it should be addressed.
- usherzx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9haha, yeah Kevin Rose said that it 'sucks'
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Why doesn't digg automatically submit all the headlines from all the main news sites. Most of the big diggers spend their time submitting everything from engadget anyway. We can still digg the story if we like it and we won't miss anything this way. The same story usually get submitted via a dozen different blogs so it won't change much.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6and i am thinking could digg get a better search engine.. i often have to use site:digg.com to find what i am looking for on here.
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5IMO a search engines with user managed rankings would suck hippo nuts. I'd rather work on my SEO than have to compete for a position with those who would hire ranking farms.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Dude, you have a username here.
- techdandy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Interesting because I did the same and I got some 15s! Love it. I think they may have an algorithm that ranks amoung search engine results? I just love the concept.
- techgeekxp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Try reloading the oozm search page... it seems to be randomized... one link was once a 15 and then it dropped down to a 5. I wonder if they do that so their possible advertisers would want to "own a page"?
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It appears that if you had put an "Uhm," before your comment you would have more points right now. I guess it pays to ponder.
- techdandy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6You mean something like http://www.oozm.com which is a similar concept to digg but it is a search engine. Users seems to submit links and vote it up or down for keywords.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think the short answer is no.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No *****! Digg as a search engine, and Litepost as an email and calendaring application, would be the perfect world, in my opinion!
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just edit it to say "Deleted."
It's not the same, but it's better than "Oops I'm a tool. Posting to the right article is too difficult for me." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i dont even use digg search, or any search on any site, i just use googel, if i want to search digg for planets i google planets digg. if i want to search youtube for funny i google funny youtube. ect... get with it
- noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. - origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not at this stage because Digg has evolved into the greatest gossip tool ever. The stories at that reach the top are often the least significant and more mainstream than normal media outlets. Digg effectively proves the mainstream media's popularity model.
- chadell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the moment we start pitching ourselves against our whits is a sign of insanity. Come what may, Digg is only a platform for self expression. We are alll intelligent enough to appreciatie that, the idea that we are all equal is nonsense!!!
- Burritovision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no, this is a selected bundle of informations. a search engine produces hits by keyword or other search terms. this is hand-selected, is it not?
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You think the digg users (who don't have adblock) actually click ads?
Well with adsense with enough exposures you do get money, but it has to be a lot. - 7sinz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4NO. Next question.
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, an article about Digg on the front page!! Who would have thought!
- Laurentvw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm suprised that wink.com hasn't been mentioned yet. Wink.com is exactly what the article is talking about. It just got out of beta, so you might want to have a look, it's pretty neat!
- troydoogle7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No it couldn't but you can add it to google using google co-op!
- BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's a preview of it in action.
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Orginal Signal aggregates all categories on Digg. ... All credits go to the authors of Digg. Without their hard work Original Signal would not exist. ...
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine?"
No. It's not that relevant... It's supporters think it is, but it's not. - Laurentvw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oops, forgot to hyperlink it (for the lazy ones): http://www.wink.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine?
Only if the search engine being rivaled specialized in redundant links to redundant information. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nope, it never will. Articles about stuff like "the density of moon rocks" or "how to knit" or "zip codes for maine" will never get dugg, and those are the kinds of oddball questions that search engines have to deal with.
- gothsquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Diggs Search needs some work but i can see it eventually rivaling a search engine. Used as more of a search for stories than websites it could work very well.
- Yage2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Powercow
"and i am thinking could digg get a better search engine.. i often have to use site:digg.com to find what i am looking for on here."
Ditto. - xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Maybe a DailyShowWiki or something, but not an actual search engine.
- Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article was written by a VC at Union Square Ventures, and it was written last month, I just thought it would make an interesting topic for discussion. So no, it was not posted by the actual blogger.
- mgainor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Digg is a handful of links, and nothing else. It's a small fraction of a percent of what a search engine is.
- Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Possibly if it weren't for all the dupes, meaningless crap, and self promoting BS.
Plus digg's search is worsted only by a certain adult themed torrent site which shall remain nameless. - xjimtx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine?
Sure if you where only searching for Mac or Ubuntu article, or maybe searched for the latest Windows bashing thread to jump on - pyrates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No, never ever. Digg and a search engine are 2 completely different sites. Besides, yahoo tried the user submitted ranking system and it fell behind. Automated spiders are the only way to go.
Then again, this is a very dumb question to ask. Like a comment said for the article, it's apples and oranges. Who the hell would digg a story like this? A story like this should have never made it to the front page. Burried as lame. - lepton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's sorta kinda what I want to do with http://www.myallo.com
It reads RSS feeds, you rate articles according to your interest, then it learns to show you better articles. It keeps a General Interest Profile which ranks according to the membership as a whole. It's just starting and only has a few thousand articles, it needs to scan a ton more RSS feeds, but you can see the concept. - Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The author is simply throwing a hypothesis. One that, I believe, is in the process of being tested by Netscape.
Peat, the author does acknowledge the problem with bots or crawlers, hence the idea of interestingness and how such a character can be determined by a crawler before the article is posted to digg.
Takes some AI work, but it's not impossible. In fact at some point, it's very likely to occur. - Brickhaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, because the Digg internal search sucks.
- albrad84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And its really slow... I actually use google with "site:digg.com" more often. It's way faster, but there are obviously fewer features
- herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2People....Digg is a bookmarking site and server crasher...not a search engine. Don't make it into one
- borud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg has the same problem as nearly every website: the search is slow. Actually, Digg is quite a pig to navigate to since the first page usually takes forever to finish loading and rendering, but the search is so slow you *really* have to *want* to search. So in the short term: no -- digg doesn't really have search capability yet (for all practical purposes).
As Digg amasses a great deal of content, this is going to be more and more of a handicap, IMHO, because search becomes more and more important.
Digg is in good company here though. There is not a single newspaper I read with any regularity of that has even a remotely adequate search system. Most of them seem to have completely random ranking. Some manage to index duplicates of their own content or to omit content. Glacial search speeds is the norm.
Does anyone know what Digg uses for their search? -
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