Yahoo had launched it’s own version of Digg’s like site two days ago. Called Yahoo Suggestion Board, it does in fact look very much like Digg, causing annoyance to the loyal Digg community. Over at the Yahoo blog where the announcement was made, it had attracted a total of 289 comments at the time of my writing, a lot of them posted by disgruntled Digg’s loyalists.
Here are some of the comments:
“Shame on Yahoo! Auto for copying Digg’s interface completely. Where’s your originality? Oh wait! You guys have no originality what so ever!”
“Wow, ripping off Digg UI? How low can Yahoo and it’s employees get? Grow a back bone and design something original.”
“Aren’t you afraid of being sued by DIGG.com regarding your blatant and admitted copying of their site? Hell, your user interface graphics are almost identical. Me personally if I was to plagiarized, I wouldn’t mention the source and I surely wouldn’t boast about it.”
“You literally stole the design from Digg.com. How is that even remotely okay? If another company stole Yahoo!’s design, you’d file a lawsuit to protect your intellectual property (and you have!). Why is it okay for you to not just steal the visual design of another site, but their voting system as well? This is disgusting.”
It is interesting to see what would happen next. How would Yahoo defend itself against the accusations? How would Digg respond to Yahoo’s latest site? Over at Digg’s blog, I found no mention of Yahoo’s Suggestion Board yet by any of the bloggers but it’s probably a matter of time before that it would be discussed there. It certainly takes two to tango.
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Yahoo had launched it’s own version of Digg’s like site two days ago. Called Yahoo Suggestion Board, it does in fact look very much like Digg, causing annoyance to the loyal Digg community. Over at the Yahoo blog where the announcement was made, it had attracted a total of 289 comments at the time of my writing, a lot of them posted by disgruntled Digg’s loyalists. 
One Response to: Yahoo launches Suggestion Board at the wrath of Digg loyalists
Mark Johnson
February 16th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
1My thoughts are that it may look like a digg site but it has a different model/ approach. It is more of a way to put down a suggestion and thoughts rather than finding a site or piece of news and promoting it (like Digg).
Yes they may have followed the Digg voting concept but I personally don’t think Digg was responsible for “inventing” that feature i.e. Digg certainly wasn’t the first company to do it, they just made it popular.
I have to say one thing though, with browsing the site and site sections, they (Yahoo) have to somehow step up with bringing quality type suggestions in there making it a more stimulating environment. As it stands now, the suggestions are pretty trivial and pointless.
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