DiggBar Launched; URL Shorteners, Webmasters Cry Foul

03.04.2009

So there we have it. Great move for Digg, lousy move for content providers. While they still gain the traffic benefits of a front-page Digg hit, they lose out on search ranking, screen real estate, and possibly even advertising dollars (if Digg kicks up this facet of the DiggBar even more). But at least they can remove parts of the DiggBar effect by . The URL shortening services really have no recourse against the mighty DiggBar: game over.