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The Unlikely Integration Between Google News and Digg

Source: Google Operating System

Jul 23, 2008

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TechCrunch reiterates the rumor that Google is about to acquire Digg. "The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source." While I don't find too many reasons why Google would buy Digg, it's clear that Digg and Google News don't have almost anything in common.
Google hand-picked more than 4500 sources and used them to cluster news articles. The idea behind Google News was to display different perspectives on the same subject and to rank them algorithmically. Even the homepage is generated automatically, based on the editorial decisions of the publication included in Google News. Last year, when Google News added comments, the feature surprised many people: the comments could only come from "people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question".
Digg gets the stories from users, who have to manually submit each item. To be promoted on the homepage, a story has to be voted by a sufficient number of Read the full article

Comments (3)

Thomaspower,

Jul 23, 2008

Good as Digg is Social Median is a better concept.

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Jasongoldberg,

Jul 23, 2008

Thomas -- are you saying socialmedian is a better concept?

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Thomaspower,

Jul 24, 2008

Yes I am, far better. Notice Digg have launching events http://digg.com/meetup. SocialMedian must have meetups in every city in the world each month.

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