Comments on: Digg chooses Microsoft as new ad partner

Redmond will serve up display, contextual ads on news aggregator site, replacing Google as Digg's main advertising partner.

[MaLvaDo39]

Bye bye Digg

Partner with Microsoft? Lose customers.

Digg is now off my bookmarks... (or "favorites" for you softies)

[spacydog]

Good to see you leave

Somewhat sophomoric to decide not to use a site because your site has dealings with a company you don't like, but to each his own. I use sites because they are useful, not because of the politics behind it.

[cary1]

Bye bye MaLvaDo39

Cnet too has Microsoft ads. So I guess we won't be seeing you here in the future!

[Mothra]

re: bye bye digg

drama queen.

[ppgreat]

How much beer did MS give Kevin?

Never sign any legal document when you're incapacitated, Kevin.
Especially not with the Beast from Redmond.

[unknown unknown]

Whatever

I haven't been using Digg as much since they changed the way the parts of the system work. For example, I've notice comments tend not to show up, even if you tell it show all by default. The ones I can't find didn't contain profanity, name calling, infringing material, and were reasonably on topic. I think they've ruined significant part of the UI.
If that ads become annoying I can block them with one click.

[NWLB]

Whats Digg?

The quest many ask, and it would seem will always ask.

Its not as much that they went with Microsoft, its that they choose to dump Google, which has far from lost its "flavor of the day" status. Call me crazy, but MS hasn't exactly set the world on fire in either search or online ads. Plus you can't use their service with Google on the same site, if I recall the TOS right.

The move simply doesn't make sense.

[NukemAll]

That SuX

So much for unbiased opinions now. Micro$haft bought them out. That Really Sux. Way to Go DIGG, you greedy idiots!

Nukemall

[Considerate One]

Yeap, because Google Ads made them independent before...

Yeah, right...

[erezhustla]

Wrong Choice

Shoul have chose Google.
Google is about to take over the media.
They even about to get out eith their new Google Cellular.
Do the smart thing and buy relevant domain names, like those for sale on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Google-Cellular-Google-Cell-Phone-com-8-domain-names_W0QQitemZ120144690732QQcmdZViewItem

[Penguinisto]

*shrug*

I can happily continue to get all the goods from Slashdot. Digg has pretty much jumped the shark in either case, and is about useless. Timelines aside, it's like MySpace mated with Fark, and gave birth to Digg.

Now personally, the only time I would worry or wonder if some site partners w/ MSFT is those whose opinions are otherwise solid. After more than just a little impropriety concerning laptops (among sundry other subtle influences), any MSFT "partnership" makes the op-eds suspect, esp. if it's a smaller site (larger sites I just take with a grain of salt from that point on).

/P

[damagu]

At least there's fsdaily.com

This is terrible news for the linus/foss lovers how went to digg. But at least there is http://www.fsdaily.com which is digg-style site just for foss/linux news and articles. fsdaily will never sell out to MS.

[damagu]

if you hate MS

fsdaily.com does foss/linux news in a digg style and will never sell out to MS