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Google and Digg have been on and off negotiations for the last few months, but it looks as though there has finally been a breakthrough as sources state that not only will Google be purchasing Digg in the next couple of weeks but that Microsoft will also drop its three year ad deal.

The question is though will Digg remain the same as it is now or will Google give it a total revamp maybe applying a no follow links to submissions which would not be so great for some peoples SEO efforts. We will see what the next few months hold in store.

Ok so today I logged into my digg profile to see that there is a story with other 10K votes an amazing feat for any story of any nature. Although I have before slated digg in previous posts for the way the site is run, you can absolutley see the potential power of a strong story. I guess with about 10k diggs that site in question must of got a heck of alot of traffic with alot of subscribers and it generated alot of buzz as its all over the internet. Whether or not the story is true it just goes to show anyone using digg can see why it is labelled the top social site around these days

As you can see from the title I feel this story in question has broken the digg record with the most votes. There maybe another few that have like 20 - 30k votes but this is the only one that caught mine and a global attention. So if you have do let us know the URL if you think there are more that has the power of this story. Finally id just like to congratulate the submitter of the story and digg for achieving such a great feat. I say bring on the 20k with a killer story! 

P.S If you know any other storys that have achieved this feat do let us know

The good old days are dead, what happened to you digg? The site that used to be user generated has fallen prey to the big guns and has fallen victim to there own success. Its a shame how we always see the same domains being made popular although the storys are so boring that my grandma would not even read! Just to entail how diggs algo has changed I would like to show you, or maybe they do not have an algo at all I believe they just have a few editors that will post.

Just take a look at this for one example:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Plurk_The_Near_Perfect_Lifestreaming_Experience_Has_Arrived

Over 200+ diggs and the story still did not go popular. Why because digg is a sham, the days are gone where the users got to promote which story they love no matter where the source was from. Now BBC, CNN, Techcrunch and all the other big guns have a slice of digg and noone else can get there foot in. Yes you heard it right here digg and other big user generated sites are abusing there members to bring in the fast cash they are taking advantage of the web 2.0 bubble and if they dont sort themselves out they will end up bursting it.

An update this story has now been classed as inaccurate apparently by users!! hmmm I wonder how that can be when it got so many diggs in the first few hours. Again work of editors not users they have no right its not adult, gambling or spam, with this many diggs it should have gone popular but theres no way they would let that happen

The link is here http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_is_no_longer_user_generated

We all know that Google are the most visited and talked about search engine in the world, but now they are looking to buy the hottest social media site Digg. This will be an amazing buy for Google as they will be further seeking total domination of the online industry. Sources are said to be saying Google are to offer around $225 million for the aquisition of the largest social media site. You can read more info on the sources here and here