What is Digg?158 Comments
- darkchild82, on 03/20/2008, -8/+107he he..this must be front page news on Yahoo!
- Jade456, on 03/20/2008, -4/+65Not having one company with too much control over anything is a good thing.
- llcj16, on 03/20/2008, -11/+56Buried. There are only 29 days in February, compared to January's 31
- Daniel591992, on 03/20/2008, -4/+32Oh, shutup. Notice where it says (Reuters)?
- Llanowar, on 03/20/2008, -1/+20Your point being?
February normally has 28 days. - phambam, on 03/20/2008, -6/+25Oh no. Google lost 0.3%. The world is lost.
- fkr3, on 03/20/2008, -2/+20In his grave?
- ictharus, on 03/20/2008, -0/+11what are you talking about? the algorithm killed Jeeves.
- maeon3, on 03/20/2008, -5/+15February contains .03% fewer searches than January because February is shorter than January. This is not news, it's propaganda.
- badjoke, on 03/20/2008, -7/+17Whatever. Google still wins the internet.
- TheGreatBelow, on 03/20/2008, -6/+15Nooooo! I, for one, support our Google overlord.
- inactive, on 12/07/2008, -25/+34Definitely from Yahoo...no big surprise there! Google news on news.yahoo.com...lots of credibility no doubt.
- brettchosewood, on 03/20/2008, -7/+15Jeeves is doing the happy dance somewhere... Interesting read!
- HaloZero, on 03/20/2008, -2/+10Yahoo and Google News don't report their own news, they just collect and format the news onto their sites. Yahoo takes it in from Reuters and Google takes it from every god damn news website on the internet.
- maeon3, on 03/20/2008, -2/+10The drop due to February being two days shorter than January.
There are the lies, the damn lies, then there are STATISTICS. - stupidStan, on 03/20/2008, -0/+8Not really... this is hardly news.
It basically says, 'nothing has changed' - you can't expect the percentages to stay exactly the same...
"...Can no one see this?!?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!!" - ElBeh, on 03/20/2008, -2/+9Windows Live it!
Nah... Google wins. - MioTheGreat, on 03/20/2008, -2/+8The image search alone makes Live worth it...
- scarz99, on 03/20/2008, -0/+6Holy ***** it dropped .03% !!!!
- pw378, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Did anyone READ the article? "The drop was partly due to February being two days shorter than January." That means, that 29 days vs 31 days = .06% less days for searches, but they declined only .03%? In any mathmatical class I have ever taken, that is a .03% INCREASE!
- karolisonline, on 03/20/2008, -7/+12of course it is dropping. being IT analytic I often have to search for specialized data. google does simple job ok, but try searching something more special - google returns tons of crap sites. and one time accidentally i had to try yahoo search. yes it is very heavy with all that ajax bla bla... but! it returns really accurate results, at least 1,5-2,4x times better results than google.
we should not reject idea that other companies are doing something useful (like improving search engines) while google (with all respect to them) are playing like little kids with google toys in that lucsurious offices, where they forgot they major objective - search engine. i don't need big free email, rss, news and load of other stuff if i can't find what i'm searching for in search engine first. - ultraJesus, on 03/20/2008, -6/+11Google won't die. When was the last time someone told you to "yahoo" or "windows live" something?
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5When to post a story:
There are ***** + some fantasy character involved. Star Wars, Apple, and linux articles that are positive. Windows articles that are negative. Anything Xbox360, PS3 or Wii. Something that hasnt been posted in 2 weeks. Something completely and utterly random, as long as it is not technological.
I think that pretty much sums up digg. - sulthernao, on 03/20/2008, -1/+6Volume and shares are very different. To quote: "The overall volume of searches done through Google dropped in February to 5.86 billion from 6.14 billion". Hmmm... maybe its because there are less days, and everyone's dropped.
- drugged, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5Yawho?
- DarkShroud, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4Altavista is owned by Yahoo.
- soulkitchen, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4Sorry everyone, no need to panic, my internet has been down.
- holymrack, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4So February "leaped" minus 2 days?
- LightSpeed4, on 03/20/2008, -2/+6MS has 10% marketshare, more than triple what ask has, and ask announced they arent focussing on general search anymore. Congrats on being uninformed.
- jasmus, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5"one time accidentally i had to try yahoo search" - how do you accidently have to try something?
- Zera, on 03/20/2008, -6/+10Except, Yahoo lost far more, 0.6 % as compared with Google's loss of 0.3%
And when you take into account that Google has roughly three times the market share that Yahoo does, Yahoo lost 6 times as much market share as Google did in proportion to the total amount each possesses.
With all that said, and given that all the major search providers lost a tiny amount, this data is really not of statistical significance, except for noting that the "big dogs" are very slowly loosing out to the small guys, and even that is of marginal statistical significance, IMO. - btnheazy03, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4Once you've reached the peak of Mount Everest, there's nowhere else to go but down .. . unless you want to stay there and freeze to death!
- HiKevinRose, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5than
- omnis, on 03/20/2008, -2/+6Welp, Google is destined for failure now. Does anyone know what the next big thing is I can jump aboard on?
(please please please notice the sarcasm, please) - Grooblle, on 03/20/2008, -3/+7***** the RIAA!
- javaroast, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5Glad to see you don't read the article just the headlines. Don't want to sound condescending, but next time read the article as well and quit being such an ass.
- GalacticCmdr, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5Are you sure it was 1.5-2.4x better - it wasn't maybe 1.4-2.6x times better or maybe even possibly 1.385-2.549x better.
- bwinkle, on 03/20/2008, -1/+4Maybe everyone just found everything.
- skyshock1, on 03/20/2008, -1/+4They're talking about worldwide search. Google sometimes has a hard time making inroads against the local search services like for instance Baidu in Asia. Even though Baidu is essentially a direct copy of Google's web UI.
This has nothing to do w/ search competition in the States, as Yahoo and MSN are still biting at Google's ankles. - txwhen, on 03/20/2008, -1/+4Although so far I still find Gooogle is better to use for me, I do not hope Gooogle continue dominating the search market too long. As for users, more fierce the competition, more advantageous.
- aaoral, on 03/20/2008, -1/+4A more balanced controll of the internet shared by google, yahoo, and possibly microsoft or ask.com might be a good thing.
- brundlefly76, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3I was at the SES conference this week in New York City and attended a forum with a comscore rep and a google rep, with tons of SEMs in attendance.
Everyone pretty much agreed that its too early to tell whether this means anything at all - there are too many variables for one month to mean anything, and stuff like Google Universal search and a more efficient algorithms change could reduce *volume*. AdWords customers were reporting higher CTR during the same period.
You look at dating services, and you know, their performance could be measured by how fast a customer no longer needs their services, as they got placed in relationship. Similarly, if Google can get users to the information they need quicker, their *search volume* goes down. - mtwolf, on 03/21/2008, -0/+3Yahoo Minds + MS Money = Google Competitor
- HiKevinRose, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3@kpsfire: Use the reply button. :)
- AxsToro, on 03/20/2008, -1/+3I dont get why you bring up Vista with this....? I have vista, I've never been redirected to the yahoo site... I have ATT / Yahoo DSL (not sure if Yahoo is still in, but they were partners with SBC when I got it) and i've never had any Yahoo add ons forced on my laptop. =/
- aefiore, on 03/20/2008, -0/+2Why, they didnt improve....still holding at 4.9%
- aaoral, on 03/20/2008, -1/+3I am very glad others use that quote.
- lamiaconfitor, on 03/20/2008, -1/+3Market share is indeed a percentage of a whole.
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -1/+3Probably because everyone already found what they need with google so they just bookmarked it.
- SSUK, on 03/20/2008, -0/+2Punctuation, do you use it?
-
Show 51 - 100 of 160 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is