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[Google Blogoscoped] Google has an iGoogle gadget called “What's Popular”. If you subscribe to it and expand it on your personalized Google homepage, you'll see a social news page not unlike sites like Digg or Reddit, with up and down vote arrows.

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[SearchCap: Daily Search Engine News Recap] Google's What's Popular Gadget: The Next Digg Clone?: Terms of Service and PrivacyWhat’s Popular is governed by the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Users who repeatedly submit bad content to What’s Popular may have their rating and adding privileges temporarily suspended.

[Software news] » Google Rolls Out Digg Reminiscent iGoogle Gadget: What's Popular: Google has rolled out a new gadget entitled “What’s Popular” which has been designed with the goal of helping you discover “interesting items from all over the internet” by using “algorithms to find interesting content from a combination of...

[Technofriends] What's Popular gadget is Google's own Digg | Technofriends: You can add this gadget on your iGoogle page and get started. As per the description of the gadget, The What’s Popular gadget by Google helps you discover interesting items from all over the Internet.

[Website Magazine Consumer Corner] Take Advantage of iGoogle's What's Popular Gadget - Website ...: Google likely takes into account the number of links pointing to the submitted page, user votes (pops) on the gadget and how many times the URL has been submitted, among other factors. So, it would make sense that the more your URL is submitted and voted on, the better chance of landing in a good position on the gadget.

[Xigaware] Xigaware » Blog Archive » Google's What's Popular Gadget: The Next ...: Posted April 27th, 2009 by outsideknowledge Steve Rubel reports that Google has released a new iGoogle Gadget named What's Popular. The gadget looks like a small little Digg clone to me. Here is a screen capture: As you can see, ...

[ShoutMeloud] Digg like voting service from Google : What's popular: What’s Popular uses algorithms to find interesting content from a combination of your submissions and trends in aggregated user activity across a variety of Google services, like YouTube and Google Reader.

[WebProNews - Social Media] Google Has Digg on the Brain | WebProNews: Google's whole foray into social media is quite fascinating to me as it unfolds almost from the inside out without many people realizing it is happening. If you ask me, Google already has a leg or two up on other social networks too as it holds the largest brand on the web, and obviously search market share, and searches begin a lot of web sessions, not even taking into consideration the number of people who use Google as their homepage.

[Search Engine Journal] Google Launches Digg Style Social Voting Service : What's Popular: Perhaps though, the social aspect is already part of the algorithm, as Google generally has an idea of the verticals or information its users enjoy, and which other “friends” visit the same webpages and fall within similar profiles.

[TechNews AM] Google's Social News Gadget... (Google Blogoscoped) » TechNews.AM: Google on the gadget's about page explains that this gadget "helps you discover interesting items from all over the Internet .What's Popular uses algorithms to find interesting content from a combination of your submissions and trends in aggregated user activity across a variety of Google services, like YouTube and Google Reader.

[Article33 - Gadgets & Reviews] Article33 - Gadgets & Reviews » Blog Archive » Google launches ...: Google's "What's Popular" feature has some Digg-like abilities for finding and voting on Web links, but Google as well as people supply them.

[money news blog] Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? | money news blog: On Saturday, Mashable's Ben Parr noticed the same new iGoogle gadget I did: What's Popular. He also asked the same question as me: did Google just roll out its own version of Digg?

[ReadWriteWeb] The iGoogle Meme Generator - ReadWriteWeb: I was really pleasantly surprised when I created a Google Alert and found that you can make any alert into a gadget on iGoogle. Cool.

[Download Squad] Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg?: Google's service can also figure out certain popular items all on its own, thanks to the massive amount of metrics big G pulls in from all over the internet. Search, Reader, Analytics, GMail, YouTube - they're all providing Google with background data that can be used to compute popular items as well.

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