Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ wd ] on Thursday 11 May 2006 14:38 \__
>
>> Will Google eventually buy Digg?
>
> Intersting question <
> http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://digg.com >, but I
> still doubt it. What would Google gain for this acquisition?
> Search-wise, very little if anything at all.
Data-wise a lot
> A community is the only
> thing to be won, much as in the Yahoo-Flickr or Yahoo-Geocities
> takeovers.
And the behaviour of that community...
> towards .NET, Vista, Yahoo, Amazon and so forth. In a sense, if not in
> practice, Digg must have attracted the Slashdot crowd.
In a way, I doubt it. There is still a huge difference between a reply on
Slashdot, and a reply on Digg.
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