Digg

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Digg (stylized as digg) is an American social bookmarking news aggregator, with a feed that displays the internet's most popular content (Most Dugg), Newest, Trending, and content that’s "Heating up." It was re-launched in its second-to-current form in June 2025, and its current form in May 2026. Originally launched in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson, Digg began as a web platform that allowed people to submit links (especially user-generated content) and then let others vote on it, up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. The website became a sensation, amassing millions of users and quickly gained the reputation of being one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups, driving significant traffic to content creators and publishers. After a poorly received redesign in 2010, its audience plummeted and much of its user base migrated to its competitor Reddit. Rose sold the company to Betaworks in 2012 and for more than a decade, the site existed as an...

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