Google Bans Digg.com

06.06.06

digg
well while my blog was down I got bored and did a quick search for “www.digg.com” on google, but it looks like they have banned it .. about time too … hahah

DaveN

10 Comments

  • 1

    Oooh, pretty new design here Dave! I like it. I want it!

    Anyway, site:digg.com gives me 7 million plus, site:www.digg.com gives me 134,000. Of course, they ought to be the same. But BigDaddy solved that whole canonical stuff, right?

    Danny Sullivan
    http://blog.searchenginewatch.com

    6th June 2006 @ 13:48

  • 2

    agreed danny, digg isn’t banned ;) but i bet they get a lot of searches for their domain like yahoo, google, bbc.co.uk .. get everyday

    DaveN

    DaveN

    6th June 2006 @ 14:06

  • 3

    Yep, and oops, you get the same for just digg.com, too.

    Danny Sullivan
    http://blog.searchenginewatch.com

    6th June 2006 @ 14:33

  • 4

    searching for just [digg] yields results too, now I wouldn’t want to say google is “broken” but …

    graywolf
    http://www.wolf-howl.com

    6th June 2006 @ 14:46

  • 5

    I like the new design, very nice

    Phantombookman

    6th June 2006 @ 19:12

  • 6

    Funny thing is… it was working before. Too bad I didn’t get a screenshot….

    phaithful
    http://www.dotseo.com

    6th June 2006 @ 20:45

  • 7

    That is very odd. It seems to be a canonical issue. site:digg.com gives you a bunch of results. A search for digg brings up the non http://www. Funny “www.digg.com” has 324,000 results and “digg.com” has 11,300,000. Looks like everybody is linking to digg without the http://www. I thought big daddy was supposed to fix this kind of stuff. It is not gone you can still do site searches and find things.

    Dave did you put nofollow on you site on purpose? I was hoping you would be on anti nofollow side.

    ogletree
    http://www.ogletreeseo.com

    6th June 2006 @ 21:28

  • 8

    Ogletree, it i the new standard WP install.. it’s more a test ..

    DaveN

    DaveN

    7th June 2006 @ 09:13

  • 9

    Lovely design. :)
    As for the ban - looks like general technical problems Google is having.

    One of my big non-commercial reference sites disappeared for a couple of days for itself, but Google seems to have found it again.

    No longer ranking for its major keywords. I guess even unsolicited sitewides on gov sites can be bad. :)

    Brian Turner
    http://www.britecorp.co.uk/

    7th June 2006 @ 10:57

  • 10

    what is wrong with the digg.com?
    more wrong with you who “dig (g) ” that
    okay

    SJ NAIR
    http://www.didwork.com/nair

    2nd August 2006 @ 21:23

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