Why does Digg’s search suck so bad?
Digg.com is an insanely popular website. They have tons of cash. They obviously have a special relationship with Google, the kind you get when you push 20M+ pageviews a month. The fact that their AdSense is not normal and is customized for their site confirms this. I love Digg, and I read it every day. Whenever they feature one of my sites I jump around in a fit of glee. Why then, does their search suck so bad?
Yesterday (or the day before, I don’t remember) there was an awesome article on hacking Google Analytics to get full referring URLs in your stats. Today I wanted to implement it on one of my sites, so I cruise over to Digg and search for “analytics hack”. After a full 50 seconds of spinning, nothing comes up. I search again, thinking the server just hiccuped. This time, after 50 seconds of spinning, it gives me an error saying “Digg is experiencing a high volume of traffic right now. Please try your search again later.” So, I jump over to google and do a site specific query with the same terms. Got what I was looking for in about 2.2 seconds.
Hey! Digg guys!!! Just send your searches to Google, let them do the heavy lifting for you and collect some more ppc revenue on the searches!!!!!! PLEASE!!!
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Try http://www.duggsearch.com it already does this for you.
I would have found this article sooner and dugg it + commented but I had a hard time finding it uses digg’s search engine. Had to resort to google “site:” searching (no sh*t).
I came here after doing a GOOGLE search on how much Digg’s search feature sucks.
How hard is it to implement the quotations search that you find on google and ebay? How about an advanced search feature?
I was just doing a search on tips for a specific topic and the results returned with every dugg article with the word “tips” in it. 949 pages of results.