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Re: Google and Digg

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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