The new Digg search, which we wrote about last week with a screenshot, just went live. Small feature change, but it’ll have a big impact on Digg usability. From our earlier post:
Digg may have 19 million unique visitors and nearly 85 million pageviews (Comscore worldwide, Feb ‘09), but one thing it’s never had is a decent search engine. There’s no rhyme or reason to the ordering of results. A lot of stuff just seems to disappear. And the filters are overly complicated.
That’ll change in the near future, the company noted in a blog post today. And since we’re so curious about what the new Digg search will look like, we hammered them until they gave up a screenshot.
The new search appears to have much more relevant results, taking into account the popularity of the story as well as the newness for “best match.” Other simple filters include “most dugg” and “newest first.” Compare that to the very old, not very relevant results you get now.
The new search also has a left sidebar with key stats, such as aging, how many stories with a certain number of Diggs, stories broken out by media type (news, video, images), and by topic.
To anyone else who is looking @ digg right now – I’m still seeing what I *think* is the old search
Me too. Dang it
Works now
I’ll stick with Yauba Http://www.yauba.com for my searches.
YAY finally. Maybe now I’ll start using Digg.
About time! Think we’ll see new kind of SEO? Digg Engine Optimization, anyone?
God I hope not. Besides, if you follow Problogger, you’ll see the much touted “Digg Effect” does very little for long term gains, so here’s hoping we can avoid a gold rush here.
still getting old search
nevermind
excellent work, digg!!
people still use digg?
because Everything on Digg is user-submitted so now its a relief to digg uders and easy to digg their favorite article
Great! Finally a useful search on digg.com
It’s the new search. And while I need to reserve judgment at first, it seems less useful. It overrides my settings for newest first content by default. (I already had to tag bookmarks to avoid “best match”.) Then all the business on the left-hand side? Useless for my search purposes — I don’t need trending when I search.
DIGG is a useless FAD and will die a slow, painful death.
I think the search is still not a real-time one or very useful. The best real-time search I’ve seen so far is in http://www.boilingpage.com. Here’s an example: Search for ‘obama’ in boilingpage yields the most recent and hot results:
http://boilingp...hp?search=obama
but in Digg, the results are pretty outdated:
http://digg.com/search?s=obama
I don’t know why my comment was deleted by TechCrunch. Maybe because, I’ve criticized Digg and TechCrunch doesn’t like that? Anyways, I am going to try making my point again. I just don’t see Digg search to be great when compared to other services like http://www.boilingpage.com which I strongly believe a potential Digg killer. Check out the comparison between Digg and Boilingpage when I searched for ‘techcrunch’:
http://boilingp...ch&sortby=2
http://digg.com...ch?s=techcrunch
Ok, sorry! I didn’t carefully look at all msgs. My prev msg is still out there, not deleted by TechCrunch.
Many Congratulations. Now i can find my submitted stories in Digg through Digg search. Earlier it was quite difficult to search for exact submitted story.
About time! Will be interesting to see people’s reactions after it’s live a week or two.
It’s really wonderful for search submitted story quickly, It’s provide near to exact story.