Off topic, but Google's inability to know that I speak english (even though I'm logged in and I've configured various of its services with this information), is mind boggling. Seriously, how does my search-language setting not override my IP?
When looking at their daily uniques, reddit's upward trend is not that significant:<p><a href="http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2C+digg.com%2C+news.ycombinator.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2C+digg.com%2...</a><p>What I find more funny are the trends on Compete:<p>Reddit: <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/</a><p>Digg: <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/" rel="nofollow">http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/</a><p>HN: <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com/</a>
I am not familiar with the aftermath of the digg fiasco, does anyone know if they ever tried back peddling?<p>If it was me, I would return the site back to what it was, and apologize profusely...
Sort of disturbing that for reddit jailbait and reddit jailbait are so high. I am guessing that is for that content and not because of the cnn report on reddit...
its amusing that a site like digg which was fairly widely popular is now only as popular as a niche site like Hacker News. Don't get me wrong, Hacker News is, IMO far and away much better than either Digg or Reddit but both of those sites have much broader appeal. Digg shot themselves in the foot
The surpriing take-away from that graph, assuming we take Google searches as an accurate measure of course, is that the popularity of Digg was steadily falling long before The Event. Of course being a eaily typed domain name (though that counts for reddit too) and people having it bookmarked will reduce the number of occurances where people neeed to search for it over time, so we should probably take these figures with a pinch of salt.
What is the motive? Comparing the whole of reddit with HN will do no good. Obviously reddit has more users because of its diverse set of sub reddits. Or is there anything i am missing here?
see here for some better perspective:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=reddit%2Chacker%20news%2Cdigg%2C4chan&cmpt=q" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=reddit%2Chacker%20n...</a>