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Yahoo! Buzz Takes Over Digg
mashable.com — I probably should have chosen a different title when I first wrote about Yahoo Buzz. According to comScore, Yahoo Buzz has actually overtaken Digg with nearly 7 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S.
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- gasin, on 05/13/2008, -3/+1WWKRD?
:) - vault, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5You can't comment on Yahoo Buzz stories, can you? It's just 'buzz up' or 'buzz down'
- Hortnon, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6Didn't they say in the townhall *yesterday* that Digg gets 20+ million uniques a month?
- alphgeek, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3On TWIT a couple of weeks ago Kevin mentioned 23 million or 26 million a month.
- frant1c, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I also think that 7 million uniques is too low a number for Digg. However, until there's an accurate way to know exactly how many visitors a site has (read: never), what comScore, compete, Nielsen, Alexa and others are saying is relevant because there's no better option.
- tastethevenom, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Well, it's one thing to start from scratch, and another to launch a child product from the largest Internet property on the planet.
- Jalh, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4so.. this is the end for you msaleem ? time to switch to buzz ?
- HunkieChan, on 05/14/2008, -3/+1what happened to mixx ?
- MyNameIsJoe, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2This is exactly the reason Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo. Any half decent service they launch really takes off because of the number of visitors Yahoo can direct to it's sites. A link on the Yahoo front page can drive traffic better than a multimillion dollar ad campaign.
- Darkhacker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3The data was collected by ComScore. And according to Wikipedia, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore#Data_collect ... )...
"ComScore maintains a group of users who have monitoring software (with brands including PermissionResearch and OpinionSquare) installed on their computers. In exchange for joining the comScore research panels, users are presented with various benefits, including computer security software, Internet data storage, virus scanning and chances to win cash or prizes."
Yahoo attends to attract the type of users likely to have any kind of data mining software installed, so already the results are bias. It'd be like polling only one particular city or state on a political issue and claiming it to represent the average American; it doesn't. - RealmDown, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Takes over != over takes.
- MikeonTV, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1Dugg and Buzzed
- BoonTobias, on 05/14/2008, -2/+0this is actually good news, we don't need their kind here
- mymnm, on 05/14/2008, -2/+1Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz off
- Eparause, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0It doesn't take that many people to "take over" Digg.
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