The Social Bookmarker

'Social Networking' the 3rd Leg of Ballmer's Online Gambit

2008-05-04T16:30:00.004-06:00

A while back Steve Ballmer was taking about Facebook being a fad. Microsoft, of course ultimately invested an extraordinary 15 Billion in them which should signal their commitment to the social networking space, but I noticed the following statement from his email to the troops after walking away from this Micro-Yahoo deal that cements it as a priority in their online strategy:

Ultimately, our goal is to build the industry-leading business in search, online advertising, media, and social networking.

So naturally I think back to the Microsoft/Digg rumors....While Digg is primarily a "social news" site it has social networking value to be sure. I wonder if Microsoft will still be considering Digg if they really walk away or force Yahoo to commit hari kari.

Digg Drops it Price to Entice Microsoft, Google.

2008-03-07T09:47:00.010-06:00

If Michael Arrington's sources are correct, my beloved social news site, digg.com is the target of buyout offers from both Microsoft and Google (!) It's been rumored for a long time that Digg was for sale but evidently Digg dropped their price and Microsoft became interested at what Arrington reports as a $200-230 Million price.

Attack of the Comments!

2007-12-23T08:55:00.000-06:00

Oh the irony and the agony.

Daniel Lyons, the real author behind the satirical blog, "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," has been posting out-of-character, as himself since Saturday. He is claiming that in the wake of the "agreed" shutdown of Think Secret, now Apple has contacted him directly with a similar offer. According to Dan, as soon as he posted about that, Apple threatened to sue him, even sending him a complete list of his own assets. All on a Saturday, no less.

The comments on these posts spiked, and he even had to post that moderation was turned off. Naturally many of the pseudo-mothership faithful are coming unglued, crying outrage, and some literally flaming Apple and Steve Jobs himself.

One commenter actually pasted this correspondence from an email exchange with one sjobs@apple.com:

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On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Gary Baldwin wrote:

I'm an admitted Apple fanboy, but I can't say I admire this. I would have thought you all would have appreciated the affectionate satire rather than being unaccountable assholes.

Gary Baldwin

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On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Steve Jobs wrote:

What, praytell, are you talking about?

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On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Gary Baldwin wrote:

I'm not sure who I've reached here, but in the interest of finishing what you start, this is what I'm referring to:

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/thanks-for-your-support.html

--

I think this is all a joke. And I think you fell for it.

Steve

Now there are people posting that they are really smoking at being duped for defending FSJ. After all, they can't be blamed for acting like rabid dogs & sending nasty hate mail. Fake Steve made them do it. (He is insanely great, after all)

The irony here is that there is something to be kinda pissed about in all this, and it's not about being "duped" (although that is friggin hilarious.)

It's that a real blog, Think Secret, was under threat of serious litigation and was essentially shut down by Apple in spite of being defended by the EFF.

That was actually a *real event* ...and so naturally it got a collective yawn from the blogesphere. This 'fake' injustice on the other hand, that's whipping everyone into a frenzy. A good case of hypocrisy or injustice, real-or-not, generally gets the blogesphere salivating like Pavlovian dog. Dan knows this. In this case, they took the fake flame bait over the real stuff.

But like all great satire, there actually is some real ham in this sandwich. The agony is that is doesn't ever seem to get eaten.

What do Ron Paul and Hannah Montana have in Common?

2007-12-14T20:19:00.001-06:00

Looking at Google's year-end Zeitgeist, it's seems evident that both are memes whose relative popularity online eclipses what it is off.

Ron Paul is far and away, the most searched-for Presidential candidate surpassing even Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton.

"Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, told Forbes.com that Ron Paul's popularity was surprising, but his online campaign 'shows what an effective tool the Internet is. He's not nearly as covered [in MSM] as Clinton or Obama, but he has marketed himself online. He's using the Internet to his advantage.'"

Over in showbiz, Disney TV/Pop star, Hannah Montana (Mylie Cyrus) and her bubblegum-music Tour are more searched for than that of the most popular rock band in the world (just off of the highest grossing tour in history, ever), The Rolling Stones.

While delving into the disparity between popularity online vs. offline was outside the purview of the Forbes article, in the case of Paul, Infowars calls it a blacklisting by the mainstream media. (No surprise coming from the ever-conspiratorial InfoWars)

I think it has more to do with Paul's consistent, but stridently Libertarian leanings. His anti-war message, really resonates with a lot of people, but so many of his other views are simply way too far out of the mainstream for him to get real traction there.

Howard Dean and Ned Lamont's losses showed that having a huge "net roots" presence simply isn't enough. You need MSM mind share too. While nowhere near as huge as The Rolling Stones, Hannah at least has more mainstream media exposure than Dr. Paul. But she's a kid's TV star...He's a presidential candidate.

Ultimately, both their online popularity (as measured by google) seems disproportionate to their relative popularity offline.

digg story

The Opt-Out of a Century

2007-12-09T23:27:00.000-06:00

Before we finally let go of the Facebook Beacon saga, and put that nightmare to rest (or at least until they violate their user base's privacy again), there's one blog post worth re-looking at, just for a laugh, from Nick Carr. It's from November 6th 2007, the momentous centennial on which everything in the known universe changed...and Beacon was announced.

“Once every hundred years media changes," boy-coder turned big-thinker Mark Zuckerberg declared today at the Facebook Social Advertising Event in New York City. And it's true. Look back over the last millennium or two, and you'll see that every century, like clockwork, there's been a big change in media. Cave painting lasted a hundred years, and then there was smoke signaling, which also lasted a hundred years, and of course there was the hundred years of yodeling, and then there was the printing press, which was invented almost precisely 100 years ago, and so forth and so on up to the present day - the day that Facebook picked up the 100-year torch and ran with it.

Just read Nick's post. It's even better now than it was a month ago.

On Being a New Media Douchebag

2007-11-25T20:39:00.000-06:00

I first saw the term "New Media Douchebag" in a digg description on Thanksgiving Day by Pete Cashmore, blogger behind 'New Media' blog, Mashable.

I think this is hilarious; There's sure to be something that offends everyone!

Google thinks RSS is sexy.

2007-11-20T15:49:00.000-06:00

Since 2005 evidentially, but it appeared on Digg and The Googlesystem Blog again today.

It's been said that by adopting the this as an icon, it might help spread the use of RSS & syndication technologies beyond its present base of more advanced internet users.

Google Search for "rss icon" yeilds this:

click here for RSS?

The Brilliance of Digg Spy - Our Greatest Community Feature

2007-11-11T14:49:00.000-06:00

Digg's original, real-time tracking page Digg Spy, is one of the best and probably most overlooked ways to use the site. You can get a huge feel for the community from watching diggspy, and you don't have to just sit there staring at it either. Just set Spy to the 'Only Upcoming' view. You can bookmark it here: digg.com/spy/queue. Tick off all the boxes, and let it run in the background whenever you're online.

One of the best advantages of surfing from Spy is the speed factor. We all know Digg is growing and the site is slow now; strained servers cause for really slow page loads, waiting, lots of clicking, and tab hell. In our short-attention-span world, Digg Spy seems to keep things fresh and moving. It's instant gratification.

Another enormous advantage Digg Spy has over any of the 'History' or 'Friends Activity' page views is that Digg Spy shows the URLs!!! This is huge plus since neither of those views do, and another click is required just to see it.

Here's what else you can watch for:

What's popular and what isn't. (Buries to Diggs as they happen) You can watch your own submission loose in the wild after you post. Commented on. Buried. Or dugg 10 times in a few minutes

Blind digging. If you watch diggspy, you'll see it. And who does it.

On the other hand, you can see who is probably reading the stories they dugg by the frequency of their diggs that go by (or maybe a comment they posted). You can see a user's habits at a glance.

You can also almost tell who is burying what sometimes, by the order of their diggs and then a sudden bury, on popular upcoming pages (if you are digg-nerdy enough to know the order of those pages).

You can also see when the digg editors (who supposedly don't exist) bury a controversial blog post behind the scenes. No one buries it according to diggspy. Yet, it's buried (hmmm)

New submits (did I mention with URL???) from your friends instantly.

You can watch the absurdity of our community when 50 dupes get posted on a breaking story in a matter of 10 minutes.

You can then watch the how well the community works as you watch all those dupes get buried en masse minutes later.

You can see agendas, who is a right or left wing nut job, or a Ronbot. Who searched the URL of certain blogs, or spamsiteABC.com, and then blind diggs them all.

Beside all of this, probably the most important general benefit of Digg Spy is that it simply helps you better engage with the digg community as a whole instead of just a subset of users (i.e. only your friends or favorite submitters). It's also a lot easier than trying to manually page through the entire upcoming queue!

You can catch great stories from everyman-users that pop up on diggspy, posts that would normally get lost in the upcoming swamp. The best stories on the Internet peek out on diggspy from random users. It is the great equalizer. Don't stay inside your friend's list...broaden the community. "Who is 'user1234'? I don't know...but he just posted a great story. Dugg!"

And, that is what digg is all about: finding, sharing, and promoting great stories. That's what enhances our community!

This post was a nerdy-brainstorm effort by guest blogger Kelly and Spinchange

Attack of the Ronbots!

2007-10-31T19:50:00.001-06:00

Confirmed: Someone is illegally spamming the internet on behalf of Ron Paul and they're using a botnet of hijacked computers from all over the world to do it.

A few days ago this mass emailing was conducted. Subject lines were randomly selected from a list of approximately 17. The spam actually created it's own fake first & last name as sender, but the addresses of compromised computers were exposed. Some of those emails ended up in the inbox of a computer forensic expert at the University of Alabama, Gary Warner, who broke the story on his blog and to Wired.

This is a dark, but pivotal moment for the "netroots." After all, It marks the first time the internet has a had a global, presidential spam campaign. Heck, you might be participating and not even know it.

It also reminds of something else I had never seen: a 3,000+ dugg Ron Paul story that never quite made it to Digg's homepage. Take a look at it and I think you'll understand why!

Is Top Digger Hosting Malware, or is Google unfairly 'Burying' Him?

2007-10-27T01:14:00.000-06:00

Self-proclaimed "Social Media Maven," top digg user, and blogger, Muhammad Saleem is a forced to be reckoned with on Digg.com. He regularly has numerous stories on the homepage of digg- almost on a daily basis. He' part of a weekly podcast, the drill down, and as one of digg's unofficial top 3 submitters, he's literally directing hundreds-of-thousands of eye balls in web traffic per week.

I've followed "msaleem" on digg.com and netscape's social new site, propeller, where he is a paid member of the community. He consistently submits popular content and is an active and high profile participant and contributor in the social ecosystem of many of these bookmarking communities.

I was therefore very surprised when I googled him to find out that Google's search says Muhammad's site will literally be harmful to my computer and won't even allow me to click through to his blog! I've visited Mu's site numerous times in the past. I have never wondered about my privacy, safety, or security in doing so. However, at least according to Google anyway , I should be concerned. ~~Considering the number of other visitors and digg users that likely have visited it, I think perhaps we all should be, at least until Muhammad comes forward, or the issue is cleared up.~~

~~Which leads me to this: I have contacted Muhammad on pownce about this 2 days ago, and he still hasn't responded.~~ I'll update if he does. In the meantime, if anyone out there is a web expert and safely can attest to the veracity of Google's finding (or lack thereof) and the safety Mu's site, I'd definitely want to hear about that as well.

Complete Update From Muhammad on Pronet Advertising

Update 2 - 10/29: I've heard from another webmaster, that this is something that has happened by mistake before. I find that to be troubling, especially when it comes from Google. If certainty is in doubt, Google really needs to take the site/result out the index instead of labeling it like this. The lack of specific information as to what the alleged badware is, is very frustrating too.

Update 3 - 10/29 10:17 PM, cst: A friend emailed me that they think there is something running on this site. Upon clicking through from a bloglines reader, their My Avast software popped up virus alerts. Still lacking complete details, but be careful. There are two kinds of viral content and this is one you don't want.

Final Update: See the linked Update from Muhammad above regarding what happened and how it's been fixed. It turns out that his index.php file was hacked and there was in fact some malicious code there (a Javascript Trojan from what some vistors could discern) It's more important than ever to make sure your systems are secure and up-to-date. As we increasingly put our lives online, and the dark hackers get ever more sophisticated, we are constantly at risk. Look for more posts on security to follow.

Digg Adds Search for User History, Limits "History" to Recent Activity?

2007-10-26T18:49:00.000-06:00

It seems that Digg.com may have taken 1 step forward but 2 steps back with the addition of the user search feature.

Checking my digg history, I notice that it only goes 3 pages back. I discovered this when I tried to search for a story I know I've dugg within the last 72 hours. Upon searching for the exact title or even by specific keywords, I got nothing. Trying to manually page back led me to discover this new 3 page limitation.

The history data and ability to view isn't completely gone, it's just hiding. The URL for each page of your history ends in /page1, 2, 3, and so on. So by manually typing in subsequent numbers it you can view further back.

In spite of that, the user search is not indexing anything past 3 pages of recent history, which defeats the purpose of a search feature altogether. How hard is it, really, to check something you've dugg recently? I don't know about you, but if I'm searching for something, it's probably because I dugg it a while back and can't find it easily the manual way. Now, it seems, they are trying to prevent finding it either way.

The Digg homepage and upcoming queue are time sensitive in nature, but it is still social bookmarking isn't it? Is our digg history / collection of bookmarks now temporary in nature too?

As an aside, you can no longer view the your submission history by whats hit the homepage either. What are they trying to hide?

More from the, "you have too many friends" dept.

2007-10-26T02:53:00.001-06:00

Along with Facebook, it's been revealed that Digg.com has a friend limit of it's own. From Mrs. Silence Dogood's blog, it appears that limit is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 or so. You're probably thinking:

"why in the hell would anyone want 1000 or more friends?"

"Isn't that too many?" "How do you manage that?"

"Isn't that just ridiculous??"

In the new world of social networking, bookmarking tools and technology, and with the ever changing way that we communicate, contact, and interact who is to say how many friends/contacts/feeds is too many?

If another user wants to really engage with the community of users around them like this, using the tools and capabilities provided to them, I say more power to them. As long as it's not for spamming or nefarious purposes, I don't see any problem someone having as many friends as they can manage.

Thoughts on Digg's "Fat Belly" of stroy submissions

2007-10-22T23:24:00.000-06:00

Cruising through the upcoming queue on Digg.com, it's becomes quite clear that the changes to the site have fattened it's belly in terms of stories with 20-40 diggs. Additionally, it seems to me that the # of active digg friends is more important than ever to get a story on the front page.

I regularly get 10-15 incoming shouts per day to look at stories (most of which do get promoted) and though it's slowed down a little, I still get at least 10 or so notifications of people following me. (Ironically, none of these followers are digging anything I've submitted ;-)

I digg for it's own sake, and as long as I have time to do it, I'll keep posting stuff that I think is cool whether it gets 20 diggs or 2000

In the meantime, I think I am going to start looking more at the stories by # of comments and also by length of time in the queue. I want to find the other "fat belly" or "long tail" stuff thats simply flying under the community's radar.

Getting real with anyone who follows this site...

2007-10-21T21:24:00.000-06:00

I'm seriously considering shutting this blog down. Whether or not I do, one thing is for certain: I don't want to pretend to be some kind of "social media consultant" I've come to the conclusion that there isn't (or shouldn't) be any expert wisdom when it comes to sharing information with people.

I very simply am just another geeky "early adopter" internet junkie. After spending more time reading blogs not on the digg rotation, I've decided that being "real" is far more interesting than trying to imitate Techcrunch and write press release garbage. There's a place for that kind of thing, and some people do it really well. I do plan to continue to follow tech development that indexes, tracks, and disrupts on my other blog, but as far the whole "social media" is concerned, I kicking it casual from here on out.

I originally started this blog to save my favorite posts from digg and had the idea of doing kind of a extended commentary on stuff I felt strongly about or just very interested in. It's never really taken off because I don't have the time to write as polished of pieces as I want too, and in larger part because I never, ever leave the damn digg site long enough too.

Perhaps I'll get back to this original concept. In the event that I don't and you are (or fancy yourself to be) a "social media" blogger/person/consultant/entrepreneur/ regular old person: I'm listening to any ideas or even offers for the domain.

You're not a "friend whore" just becuase you have a lot of friends

2007-10-14T13:07:00.000-06:00

I am not a huge user of facebook (although my wife is) but I just read a great post from Robert Scoble on why their 5,000 friend limit is, in his opinion, unnecessary and restrictive. What I like about Scoble's post is that even irrespective of facebook, it's the best defense I've ever read for having a large online social network.

I have many personal friends who simply don't understand or actually frown upon having significanty more "virtual friends" than real ones (the "friend whore" accusation). I've never really been able to convincingly articulate why I have a few hundred friends on Digg or Myspace, etc...I am sincerely not out for any kind of online popularity contest, but what can I say, I enjoy networking and making contacts with interesting or like-minded people.

Scoble articulates better reasoning & justification for having a large contact list as well as a great explanation of the real friends/ virtual friends dichotomy: Virtual friends or contacts are not necessarily real friends, nor do they have to be.

When Digg.com made changes to their site and allowed for an unlimited number of friends, shouts, etc. I initially noticed that several diggers who I was "friends" with had un-friended me. My wife, who is not on digg, guessed that perhaps people felt like since I had several hundred friends already, I was something of a "friend whore." and that was a turn off. I don't know if this is the case of not, but I read hundreds of RSS feeds and enjoy following like-minded bookmarkers. If that's a bad thing, than shoot me.

Netscape Social News is relaunching as "Propeller"

2007-09-12T21:17:00.001-06:00

Netscape is relaunching their social news site soon under the new name. The site isn't live yet, and the current homepage of Netscape is much like Yahoo.com, but the word is that it's coming soon. Stay tuned for details.

Ready for "Friend-spam" ?

2007-08-27T22:17:00.001-06:00

Rough Type has brought to my attention a few new Google patents that have been filed for a new sort of "peer-to-peer" search and advertising. The former is definitely kind of cool and the latter...well, i guess sometimes it's nice to have a link to something where you can virtually "look it in the store," but I can see where it could really get tacky too.

[it means] the injection of commerce, and commercial incentives, into the most intimate of electronic communications. (email, etc)

"There's something I'd really love to tell you about."

The 'inside' on the re-launch of SuprNova.Org

2007-08-03T21:25:00.001-06:00

"SuprNova used to be the biggest torrent site there was. It used to be the beacon of the file sharers. It was shut down by the former admin Sloncek when the pressure got too high. The MPAA and RIAA had their biggest file sharing victory ever with the closing of SuprNova. Now, a couple of years later, we felt it was high time to get the site back up."

"More information will be out later, right now we’re coding the last parts of the site."

Source: brokep

digg the original Brokep blog link

The Daughter of an SEO Pro and Her Blog.

2007-08-02T23:31:00.001-06:00

Chloe loved Neopets so much that she wanted to set up a website about them, so with her dad’s help she looked up some popular keywords and built a blog on Wordpress. He says she is now making close to $1,000 a month.

(when it gets to the music you can just cut it)

read more from Matthew Ingram's Blog| digg the original story here

The Internet is my Social Network

2007-08-02T20:18:00.001-06:00

I confess, I have Facebook and MySpace pages. I honestly don't use them that much though. Why? Because I don't need too. I use email, pownce, or IM to communicate & chat with contacts on the web. If I want to share something with the world, I can do it here or my other blog, or at any location really.

The point is this, if you can link to it, others can share it & connect to it. While everyone gets excited about the next big social network...the overlooked beauty (and simplicity) of the Internet is that, it is the real underlying social network.

It's unofically offical : The Dow Jones Pwnd by Rupert Murdoch!

2007-07-31T10:18:00.001-06:00

According to MSN Money, The Bancroft Family has accepted Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation's $5 Billion bid for the Dow Jones companies and venerated news brands including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and More.

"The Bancroft family has accepted," John Prestbo, editor and executive director of Dow Jones Indexes, told reporters earlier today in Chicago. "Dow Jones will be part of News Corp."

Consumers (and publishers) of Fine Financial News, Meet your new Daddy:

I hope he doesn't make them "Fair and Balanced"

It would also be nice if the WSJ editorial board sets up a MySpace page or something (In the spirit of corporate camaraderie.) I can't wait to leave animated .gif comments for Dorothy Rabinowitz!

Conflicting Memes on the Wisdom of Crowds

2007-07-21T20:44:00.000-06:00

(er, their comments anyway)

The Old School:

Internet Pioneer Marc Andreessen has made a splash by (re)joining the blogosphere. I think he may have inadvertently touched off a meme on the value & pertinence of comments in personal blogs, by turning his off. RSS inventor and Blog pioneer Dave Winer wrote an old post cited by Joel Spolsky that comments don't make the blog; after all, it's the personal space of the author & her/his viewpoints. The ability to leave a negative opinion on someone else's site is not, after all, a God given right.

Joel did take it a little further -- I get the sense that he pretty much feels all comments are garbage.

I've noticed Nick Carr has disabled his, leaving a message that he's on hiatus for the summer (yet he's still posting to the blog -- I guess it's a "comment hiatus")

The New School:

Is All about community & comments! They want to tap into the conversation and thusly, the "wisdom" of the crowd. Although, sometimes, they just want to know what their friends are doing too. It's really about about connections, social networks and information/news through the social context.

What I really like about Kevin Rose's new service, Pownce: Messages can be replied too and seen by everyone. Doing that promotes further conversation and connection making, but subtly.

Sites like Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, and even Digg are all about the comments & conversation of the crowd.

So What do you think?
Old Curmudgeons, Young Dilitantes, or just a bit of both?

If 10,000 Monkeys typing can (theoretically) reproduce Shakespeare, then what can a 100+ Bloggers create?

2007-07-17T13:58:00.001-06:00

It's an interesting project that was started by top bloggers' Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton

The Fast Company Blog says this about it:

"it's a a precedent setting collaborative book-writing effort between 100+ bloggers and other new media types. It is a model for how information will be produced and shared in the future. Oh yeah, and its a book."

Click on the book to purchase the download or hard copy
(*all the proceeds go to charity*)

Yes, in meta fashion, there is an official blog for the book.

Digg this story!

Breaking the Internet, a quadrillion RSS feeds at a time...

2007-07-15T22:12:00.000-06:00

The only thing better than getting all your RSS feeds imported, organized and even shared with Google's Reader (following suit of modern-day blog legend Robert Scoble ) is getting your favorite digg submitters' feeds set-up as gadgets for your google homepage.

No sooner will we get all this organized then will something like this happen:

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Using Google to Search Digg Part 2

2007-07-14T10:47:00.001-06:00

In our last installment, we looked at using Google to search Digg.com - particularly one's own account history covering comments, submissions, and more. The only drawback to this is that it's a manual "command line" approach and requires some extra steps. (Opening tabs or windows, etc instead of being able to search in site)

As promised, I've got a little hack that a helpful coder whipped up! It's a great little greasmonkey script that allows you to use Google to search digg.com, right from the actual Digg.com search box.

Here's how it works:

(Preface: it's assumed that you are using the Firefox browser, if you're not, you need to for this, and ought to be anyway. You can get it here. Next, Download and install the Greasmonkey add-on for Firefox. Greasemonkey is kind of like a little "environment" that runs inside Firefox and allows for custom modifications/mash-ups of web sites -- just for you and only you, inside of your browser. I am not going to get into all the details, but there are all kinds of cool scripts out there that allow you to do tons of neat things with sites that the owners never even intended. It's harmless because all the "hacking" is taking place on your machine alone. For the faint of heart, don't worry installing scripts is really a snap. Point, Click, Install, and Refresh the page and suddenly your favorite site just got a new feature)

So lets get to the meat and potatoes of the "Googlefied" Digg search:

If you're already on board with Greasemonkey,
Download the Script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7402

Restart the browesr to activate it, head back to Digg and the first thing you'll notice is that the digg search box field has now gone from white to yellow.

When you do a search, its now calling google & automatically adds the "site:digg.com" operator to the query for you and displays the results on a new page.

What I really like about this script is that is doesn't completely hijack digg's search box.

If you double click in the yellow field, it goes back to being white, and thus it's back to Digg's native search. Double click again and it's Google (yellow)

You can compare the results and see that, at least at present, Google's index yields much better results than Digg's. An exception may be brand new stories too. While Google's spiders crawl & index the web fast, they're not "real time" fast. So, if you can't find what you are looking for using your new Googlefied Digg search (and you know it's on there somewhere) you can always go back and find it in the digg search. The digg search also can tell you if a story was buried or not (more on that next time).

Enjoy and Digg on...