Yahoo president claims Y! buzz more popular than digg
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The Yahoo shareholders meeting is on its way and while I am not in it, I have been following some of the live blogs from the meeting to see how CEO Jerry Yang is handling the Microsoft-Yahoo debacle so far.
However, the story that really caught me off-guard is Yahoo’s claim that buzz is now more popular than digg. Yahoo buzz and digg.com are finding and sharing Internet contents Both sites let you vote for a popular story and in a democratic way pushes the more popular story up. Digg was created by Kevin Rose and was launched on December 4, 2004. Yahoo’s clone of digg called Yahoo! buzz was launched on Feb 26, 2008.
Today, Yahoo president Susan Decker claimed in the stockholders meeting that Yahoo buzz has displaced Digg as the top way to find content across the entire Internet. Buzz feeds content to Yahoo’s Web site in an attempt to help advertisers, users, and publishers. “With the home page, we are opening it up so we’re surfacing the very best of the Web. Ultimately, advertisers will pay for that attention,” Decker said.
