Google Pop the new digg?
Ivan | Sat, 2009-04-25 22:36
Google were going to buy digg.com for around 200 million last July, but apparently they couldn't work out a deal. So, google decided to build its own digg and make it available to its millions of users in form of an iGoogle gadget called What's popular.
The features are somewhat simpler than digg's, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It may even be an advantage if Google wants to reach a wider audience than digg's technocrats. You can pop (vote in Google's terminology) stories up / down and you can add your own urls for others to pop. Relevant stories are suggested to you using an algorithm that finds interesting content from a combination of your submissions and trends in your activity across a variety of Google services, like YouTube and Google Reader.
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Steal and half bake!
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I truly believe that Google's iGoogle gadget known as What's popular will take over a large portion of digg's market share. Simply because of the sheer size and popularity of the search engine giant.
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google has some really great aps that work seamlessly together, i am definitely a google girl, there is always something new to learn/play with.
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