Some days ago, digg.com changed their search feature. Now we can enter an URL to know what are the digs related with that URL. Digg.com is not a traditional search engine. So if I dig “fgiasson.com” on Talk Digger for example, then the results I will receive from digg.com will be the digs related with that URL and not the URL of the web pages that link to that URL (this is how all the other search engines supported by Talk Digger work).

However, I need to try digg.com with Talk Digger. The idea of integrating digg.com to Talk Digger is to give a possibility to read the comments from digg.com users about an URL. The usefulness of digg.com results are not the same as the other search engines. That way, we will be able to read comments, good and bad, from users of a constantly growing community.

So, if you click on the results’ link, you will be redirected to digg.com. That way you will be able to read what digg.com users say about that URL. To save browsing time, I added the number of comments in the title of each result.

This is a test I am doing right now. I have some doubts about its true usefulness, but the only way to find out if it is, is by implementing it on talkdigger.com and check if Talk Digger users like it.

So I would appreciate to know what you think about this new implementation; how I could improve it; how I could make it even more useful, etc.

Also, you will see that I disable two search engines: Feedster and Icerocket. The Feedster linkback feature is under re-development, so it is unavailable for the moment. Icerocket always finish by banning the IP address of talkdigger.com, I constantly talk with Blake Rhodes to delete it of their black list, however I will waiting until talkdigger.com is put on their green list before re-enabling it.

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