Comments on: Chris Winfield in the Associated Press: 'Digg Fires Google for Online Ads'

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:27:09 +0000

@steve – It’s more about ego and the loss of a ‘hot’ site rather than a dollars & cents issue…

@paul – Yep – they are getting some nice high profile sites but they really need to dramatically increase their own search traffic to really gain some ground of G…

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:06:10 +0000

Microsoft Adcenter is certainly picking up steam, isn’t it?

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:29:30 +0000

I’m sure Google does not really care about digg. If diggers don’t click ads on websites they go to why would they click ads on digg?

By: David Kam

David Kam — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:49:56 +0000

Very informative post. I wrote a post about google, yahoo and Microsoft. “Yahoo and Microsoft are acquiring more companies these recent years to even out the playing field. Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog and Right Media recently. Microsoft acquired aQuantive, Screentonic, Tellmenetworks, and Medstory in 2007 and would help Microsoft tremendously in the long run.” You can click on my name to get to my blog.

By: Jake Matthews

Jake Matthews — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:24:45 +0000

@ Ilya

I’m disgusted with the display advertising on Digg.com – it’s abhorrent the way they present banners, so in your face. I recently wrote about it. I also saw and AdSense ad on digg one time that was really out of this world. I’ll try to find the screenshot that I took some time ago and post it. It will be good “fodder”

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:22:20 +0000

Indeed Erika

@ Fat A – yeah it seems to be constantly heating up. I’m just curious where Yahoo is in all of this (or anything lately)…

@ Ilya – read what I said again:

Diggâ€™s decision to defect may not dent Googleâ€™s balance sheet, but itâ€™s still a blow to lose such a hot Web 2.0 property

I don’t believe that Digg’s leaving Google will affect them (GOOG) financially much at all but it is a symbolic “victory” for Microsoft and for a newer ad service, that’s important.

And if you don’t think they would be considered a hot Web 2.0 property right now, then you must have extremely lofty standards.

Thanks for the comments guys/girls.

By: Ilya @ Neo Meme

Ilya @ Neo Meme — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:14:47 +0000

Such a hot web property? Are you kidding? Digg users are absolutely notorious for not clicking on ads. Just look at the comments on the Digg story- the most upvoted are “Digg has ads?”.

Digg’s CTR is absolutely horrible- Microsoft advertisers won’t be happy.

By: Fat A

Fat A — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:38:33 +0000

Intersting competition between Google and Microsoft…

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:56:21 +0000

This is fantastic exposure Chris. I agree, who refers to Microsoft as “young”?

I have to say though, I think it was a good move for Digg because Google really needs to come down off that mountain.