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In our opinion, the DiggBar takes Digg’s approach to news gathering and dissemination one step too far. By hijacking URLs, they complicate an end-user’s experience on our site, and from a publishing standpoint, we think it’s a step backwards to mask the content you’re visiting with shortened URLs from an unrelated site.
Warning: Adult language, yet a necessary discussion of trends and issues in url shortening services.
"But unlike normal URL shortening services, when you load these Digg URLs, rather than redirect you to the original URL, Digg loads a page which frames the content of the original site. As a user, what you see is that the URL in your browser’s location field remains digg.com/1234, and the content of the destination site loads underneath a Digg-branded toolbar."
"The DiggBar does not do a 301 redirect. If you shorten a page using DiggBar service, then Twitter the short URL you receive, any links that Google or other search engines find via that short URL will send credit to Digg, not to the destination page you shortened."
"Digg released their iframe based software toolbar (DiggBar) this past week and I’ve been trying to educate both users and publishers as to why frames are a very bad idea. "
watch web videos without the comments; can shorten the url from this site.
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As url shortening becomes more popular and useful, it often eliminates the owner/author of the original links. Since they are out of the shortened url loop, they get no search credit and no direct clicks through the shortened url, such as, DiggBar.
Updated on 2009-07-06
Created on 2009-04-11
Category: Computers & Internet
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