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April 10, 2009
Digg Search is Now Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Digg has introduced an updated search to their social bookmarking site. Design head Daniel Burka outlined the changes in a post on the Digg blog. The updates include:
- Filtering by factors such as Digg count, topic, time, etc.
- Advanced shortcuts to search for specific promotion characteristics. Add +p to your query for only promoted stories, +u for upcoming stories, and +b for buried.
- Common search tricks - quotes for exact match and a negative sign before the term to keep that term out of results
- A graph demonstrating the historical trend of a term
- Searching for stories from a particular domain is much more effective. Filtering results by domain is also available.
- New RSS feeds allow users to create feeds for a given topic but filter out results they don't wish to see
- Digg search is faster
What do you think of the Digg search updates? Let us know in the comments below.
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on April 10, 2009 1:36 PM
Comments
Don't forget that Digg also has a new "service" to make long URLs short.
And the special bar at the top is so useful & great!
Ofir Baruch April 12, 2009 10:50 AM
Are they really after the slice of the search market pie or is this just an expensive experiemnt?
Dejan Petrovic April 13, 2009 2:58 AM
Slower but it's ok. More functions.
vanen April 15, 2009 4:18 PM
Digg looks like it could be used as a very nice link location - drives traffic and also gets noticed by Yahoo.. hopefully by Google soon enough too.
rankONE September 30, 2009 7:25 AM
