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Google to buy Digg

19 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/google-to-buy-digg.93792/

iMav
iMav Original post #1
Jul 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Michael Arrington said:
Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies 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.

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casanova
Jul 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Big fishes eating popular small fishes. Fishing time :D
MetalheadGautham
Jul 24, 2008 at 5:33 AM
This is the best thing that has ever happened.
Digg pages are unusually slow, this is going to fix that.
Besides, since google owns digg, they can crawl through all the digg entries more easily.
This means articles submited to Digg will surely come up in google search.
A
Jul 24, 2008 at 7:19 AM
OMG...
T
Jul 24, 2008 at 7:48 AM
Good news.
desiibond
Jul 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM
OMG, this makes lot of sense. Why didn't Microsoft think of acquiring Digg?? They wasted lot of time running behind Yahoo!. More increase in internet revenues for google. :)
amitava82
Jul 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM
This is the best thing that has ever happened.
Digg pages are unusually slow, this is going to fix that.
Besides, since google owns digg, they can crawl through all the digg entries more easily.
This means articles submited to Digg will surely come up in google search.
I hope you know what you are talking about... ;) :p
goobimama
Jul 24, 2008 at 9:48 AM
I do wish everything wasn't controlled by a few big companies.
gary4gar
gary4gar #10
Jul 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM
+1
Google owns...

* the #1 search portal
* a leading email service
* a leading customized home page
* a leading feed reader
* the leading feed management system
* the leading analytics product
* the largest distributed ad network
* the most widely distributed traffic monitoring toolbar
* the largest video content hosting site
* Google collects data from millions of Google accounts every day

And now Digg


It won't be totally wrong if we say, Google owns the Web:!:
Pathik
Pathik #11
Jul 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM
This aint very good. However good Google may be, we cant let it take over everything. Too much power corrupts all.
mavihs
mavihs #12
Jul 24, 2008 at 8:07 PM
^^+1

But till that doesn't happen, it good news for us.
Faun
Faun #13
Jul 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM
I suppose google wont me the next monopoly :rolleyes:
S
Jul 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Gary4gar u forget abt orkut...
gary4gar
gary4gar #15
Jul 24, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Gary4gar u forget abt orkut...
orkut is not that big! to be called monopoly, there are more big daddies in Social networking like facebook & myspace.

orkut is just popular in INDIA & Brazil
Faun
Faun #16
Jul 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
^^yeah thats why I see more despos now on orkut :p
Faun
Faun #18
Jul 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM
^^once in a while I stroll in the town of orkutville :p
praka123
praka123 #19
Jul 25, 2008 at 8:15 AM
another monopoly? Hope not :|