What is Digg?134 Comments
- Soccrmastr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+72MORE:
http://digg.com/technology/Good_hiring_15_year_old_kid_is_FAKE
http://digg.com/links/15_year_old_(not_hired_by_Google)_offers_full_apology
http://digg.com/links/Google_Did_NOT_Hired_Tom_Vendetta
http://digg.com/technology/Google_doesn_t_hire_15-year-old_kid
http://digg.com/technology/Goole_hired_15_year_old_Ajax_guru_
http://digg.com/links/who_is_tom_vendetta_really_
http://digg.com/technology/He_faked_it_Kid_can_barely_handle_HTML_
http://digg.com/technology/Google_hires_15-year_old_kid - WayneGoode, on 10/12/2007, -6/+62Stories on digg.com
digg fooled: http://digg.com/technology/Google_hires_15-year_old_kid
digg gets real: http://digg.com/technology/Google_doesn_t_hire_15-year-old_kid.
apology on digg: http://digg.com/links/15_year_old_(not_hired_by_Google)_offers_full_apology - TheRob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44He didn't expose the exploit. someone else did. He followed the instructions.
- timwizard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Its like digg, except everyone already knows that a good quarter of the stories are inaccurate.
- turnlikeawheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Here's another headline:
Fake Story About 15 Year Old Kid Being Hired By Google Repeatedly Posted On Digg.com By Apparently Illiterate 14 Year Olds - Thunders, on 10/12/2007, -10/+34I wish I was named Tom Vandetta what a cool ass name.
- jordan314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22"Vandetta logged into the news search tool Digg after receiving an automated email from MAKEBot (Digg's Spider)"
Oh journalists. MAKEBot is not digg's spider, it's an AIM bot designed by Make zine to allow you to subscribe to digg's curent RSS feeds via IM. - tom151515, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18That's quite amusing.
- CheapDigWannbe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15And how reading the newspaper is different? You think there are more people checking the validity of stories? Come on, it's all same *****. In books, net, newsmedia, in history (just take any history book from two different nations with different governmental systems and compare the history of same events).
- tom6a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9He found out how to submit the false news releases from Digg
http://digg.com/technology/Spam_Google_News_By_Writing_Fake_Press_Releases - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Can't blame them for wishful thinking...
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@Cheap
Newspapers have these people called "editors" who review stories and decide what is fit to print in their publication.
Google has this automatic aggregator machine called "Editor Bot 3000" that blindly throws any pile of ***** at the masses, for it does not have a nose with which to smell the putrid stench.
Hopefully, Google minions are hard at work in an attempt to give Editor Bot 3000 a nose after this simple prank. - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Google News is an aggregator service. They don't claim that any of the news items they collect and serve by proxy are in any way accurate... just that they exist out there.
Google News wasn't "foiled" by anything; it worked exactly as intended.
People who assume everything on Google News is fully vetted and reviewed were "foiled" (as you put it). - noelsusman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, well I hear they have something to do with techonology and they are (or were depending on how you look at it) one of the fastest growing techonology companies in the country.
I mean, what is a company like that doing on the front page of a technology news site? I totally see where you're coming from
/sarcasm - reaver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10he visits this site. He was apologizing in the original digg. It unfolded on here pretty much.
- brandonr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Whether or not the kid fooled you (and digg, and google news). Let's focus on the bigger point in all this: how awesome is it that a 15 year old pranked so many people? Very... that's how awesome.
Props to you kid - minimaximus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Tom Vendetta's next gig:
Dear Sir, I have been commissioned by the government of Nigeria to contact you regarding official business...
/Irresponsibility = cool nowadays? - ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7jkfan87 wrote: "He cimply submitted a TERRIBLY worded"
Hmmm...talk about a terribly worded statement. Cimply? Did you miss the spell-check before submission? I re-read it to make sure you weren't trying to be cute or making a point.
Now I know, misspelling words happens to the best of us...but "cimply"? Are you fricken kidding me? - ahdustin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Damn, I actually told friends about this kid getting hired. Now I have to admit I was incorrect. Damn you digg :)
- existent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Digg IS 15 year old kids.. with their patron saint, Kevin Rose.
- metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -16/+21It's Vendetta
- 12Volts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hey that is brilliant - it puzzles me why people get mad that they are fooled by a Digg story. Read everything with an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.
- 12Volts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I use Digg as a bookmarking site - I often digg a story to bookmark it so I can read it later. Why you can only use a digg to approve a story you read has always amused me. The Digg Police only want you to do things their way it seems.
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Google News is an aggregator not a news reporting company.
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6it just goes to show, dont believe everything you read on the net :P
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5... only if by "everyone" you mean either:
A) "people who don't read the ***** article"
B) "people who do read the ***** article, but have even more underdeveloped spelling and punctuation skills than that kid" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WOW, Awsome, First off all you can all see the power of DIGG, which I think is one of the greatest Sites every. And man i would love to be that kid right now, not really, but seriouly your name is now spread all around the web. Its like thousands and thousands of people reading about you, you are famous for a little, but still never forgotten on the web, I can surly say that i will remember that name for a while.
Good luck.... - putnam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What are you talking about? Thousands of morons at Digg thought it was actually legit. You had to search for the item on Google News -- it wasn't on the top page or anything, whereas it was on the front page of Digg.
You're blatantly retarded if you think Google's news aggregation algorithm is half-decent. - dhulser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5what I personally don't understand is how people can condem digg for this type of thing. Yes, it made it to the front page, that must be digg's fault and all... That's the beauty about this page we call digg... YOU premote the items to the front page. That's what that digg button does, by the way... all in all, if you don't like digg, be it for stories like this or for any other reason, then show yourself to the door... i wont miss you. but i'll be stickin around for awhile... it's already beaten out fark.com for my favorite news site...
/my two cents - thorpus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I posted the original article. A co-worker of mine discovered the exploit.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5See also the whole "Will Ferrel Is Dead" thing that was started by the BS machine that is iNewswire
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, it is annoying that social news sites like Digg are lauded as being the best thing to hit the web since that .gif of sliced bread, when they are, by their very design, prone to the mob mentality and superficial mass appeal (i.e., people digging stories based on a nifty, yet totally inaccurate, headlines).
That design flaw of assuming that the public at large makes for a good editor *is* Digg's fault.
Lest you think that we disagree, this fault of Digg lines up quite nicely with your point... people are stupid. - Rio517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"there ARE far more people checking the validity in newspapers." I don't think that is at all accurate. The 3-7 people that check a newspaper's content doesn't compare to the thousands who look at digg post and have the opportunity to evaluate them for accuracy. Every Digg post can be flagged as inaccurate, but once a newspaper story is published, it's in the public sphere for good.
Where most newspapers have small "corrections" columns, errors is front page digg stories often make it to the front page. I think digg content has the potential to be far more accurate. - 12Volts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Nah they write stuff like "salary benefits were modified according to the experience level presented by the young executive whose prior knowledge in the field proved to be somewhat less than previous reports but whose willingness to aspire to a position in the Google family is evident from his commitment to be hired by the world leader in searching technology."
- Bahwoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Chuck Norris applied at Google, his interview had to be cut short when during the first question he roundhouse kicked the entire google staff into a 3.5 floppy disk drive. Google hired him based on that stunning demonstration alone. He is now working in the company's cyber security department, where combined with Googles latest technology he is able to stab search engine spammers in the face through their monitor.
True story, link --> http://www.google.ca/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=google+hires+chuck+norris&meta=&btnG=Google+Search - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2True that... "Alot of people have been congratulating me on finding a "killer bug d00d!!!!" in google's news system. I would just like to make this clear. I did not find this bug. The bug was found by a man named Richard Wiggins. He posted it on his blog on Thursday, March 9th." ---From his blog.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Good hoax.
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@shiptostore
Usage my friend, usage. Before long your precious language will be almost incomprehensible to you, just as the english of 500 years ago is. And it will only happen more and more quickly.
Knowatamsayin'? - laddie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This blog is being overloaded by nerd-ideology it was funny and genuis (esp. for a 15yr old), leave it at that.
- jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2'mad props y0'
should have waited until april fool's day...
i wonder if google will do a big prank?
"We deleted our search engine on accident. Please use the Myspace search page for any queries."
that'd be killer - twistx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Quite stupid to say Google News was "foiled" by 15 year old.
Its more like... a lot of people were fooled by a 15 year old and Google News picked up the proof. - TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"it is annoying that social news sites like Digg are lauded as being the best thing to hit the web since that .gif of sliced bread, when they are, by their very design, prone to the mob mentality and superficial mass appeal (i.e., people digging stories based on a nifty, yet totally inaccurate, headlines)."
If you don't like the democratic system of social news sites like Digg then there is always the editorial system of Slashdot. I grow increasingly tired of people who verbaly abuse digg because every story on the front page dosent appeal to their "higher intellect" This is the beauty of digg as is the beauty of any democratic system. You will never be happy with what is being presented to you...but you know what? You have the right to disagree with me and get the story you want on the front page with a couple hundred other fellow readers that share your sentiment. Digg isnt about cool stories that you like. Its about Stories that a Mass internet user base thinks is worthy of a read. Whether it be about some 15 year old kid following instrutions on getting his 15 minutes of fame on Google News or about the latest black hole theories of the universe. - l3ill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3good job tom
- jaijai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Such unnecessarily verbose commentary. And what is so exciting about using an exploit you found by reading?
Overrated. - beatniak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but you did pwn the damn thing right?
(whoever thought of own with a p? how come a typo can become so popular amongst 13yr olds? I understand cewl, because it's so easy to type) - beatniak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice summary jonrad. that was quite the thing i thought
- getmeraj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1supera appu
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Frick'in Hilarious on several levels ...
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your first guess was the right one. It is called a 419 scam. 409 is a window cleaner.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How do we know THIS story isn't the fake one.
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