17 Facts About Digg

Digg, stylized in lowercase as digg, is an American news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues.

Digg's popularity prompted the creation of similar sites such as Reddit.

Digg was purchased by BuySellAds, an advertising company, for an undisclosed amount in April 2018.

Digg started as an experiment in November 2004 by collaborators Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson.

Digg added Google AdSense early in the project but switched to MSN adCenter in 2007.

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Digg v2 was released in July 2005, with a new interface by web design company silverorange.

Digg had grown large enough that it was thought to affect the traffic of submitted web pages.

Beyond the release, Digg faced problems due to so-called "power users" who would manipulate the article recommendation features to only support one another's postings, flooding the site with articles only from these users and making it impossible to have genuine content from non-power users appear on the front page.

In September 2016, Digg announced that it would begin a data partnership with Gannett.

Digg subsequently went into further venture capital funding, receiving $28.

In March 2018, Digg announced that it would shut down its RSS reader, Digg Reader.

Digg hired computer scientist Anton Kast to develop a diversity algorithm that would prevent special interest groups from dominating Digg.

Progressive blogger Ole Ole Olson wrote in August 2010 that Digg Patriots undertook a year-long effort of organized burying of seemingly liberal articles from Digg's Upcoming module.

Digg accused leading members of vexatiously reporting liberal users for banning, and creating "sleeper" accounts in the event of administrators banning their accounts.

The scope of the user response was so great that one of the Digg users referred to it as a "digital Boston Tea Party".

You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company.

Digg's traffic dropped significantly after the launch of version 4, and publishers reported a drop in direct referrals from stories on Digg's front page.