What words are most often frontpaged on digg?
| Word | Category | Nr. Pages | Nr. stories (approx.) | Stories frontpaged (pages) | Nr. of stories frontpaged (approx.) | Most popular story dugg, times | Story title | URL | ||||||||||||||||
| Game | Hardware | 2444 | 36660 | 155 | 2325 | 4862 | Guy selling every NES game ever made on eBay!! With pics | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Tech News | 2356 | 35340 | 130 | 1950 | 7706 | It's confirmed - Google buys YouTube for $1,6 billion | Link | |||||||||||||||||
| Web | Design | 1634 | 24510 | 54 | 810 | 5046 | Worst Website ever? Why? Cause this is my WEB DESIGN TEACHERS site. | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft | Microsoft | 1532 | 22980 | 80 | 1200 | 6623 | Vista cracked totally by Paradox - Microsoft's in trouble now | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Apple | Apple | 1375 | 20625 | 108 | 1620 | 22549 | Apple announces iPhone | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| TOP | Tech News | 1293 | 19395 | 65 | 975 | 5259 | What are the top 100 viewed Wikipedia pages | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Blog | Tech News | 1060 | 15900 | 19 | 285 | 10389 | Digg Unveils New Features - Kevin's Blog Post Explains with Video | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Mac | Apple | 1031 | 15465 | 93 | 1395 | 6786 | I hate Macs | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Windows | Software | 1020 | 15300 | 69 | 1035 | 5453 | Bill Gates on the Daily Show Promoting Windows Vista | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| War | Politics | 1013 | 15195 | 44 | 660 | 5267 | What America could buy for $145 billion dollars (the 2007 Iraq war budget) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| iPod | Apple | 962 | 14430 | 62 | 930 | 7323 | RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Wii | Gaming News | 955 | 14325 | 89 | 1335 | 4945 | Introducing Nintendo Wii | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| XBox | Tech News | 881 | 13215 | 56 | 840 | 3125 | CONFIRMED! Xbox 360 will Sell for $100 on Amazon next Week | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Vista | Apple | 865 | 12975 | 35 | 525 | 9316 | Hi, I'd like to buy a copy of Vista (Image) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Movie | Gadgets | 858 | 12870 | 37 | 555 | 3947 | Things computers can do in Movies | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Linux | Linux/Unix | 815 | 12225 | 100 | 1500 | 4087 | The Amazing | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Ubuntu | Linux/Unix | 781 | 11715 | 31 | 465 | 3883 | Father impressed with Ubuntu, thinks it's Vista | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Bush | Politics | 748 | 11220 | 39 | 585 | 5108 | Trump: Bush the worst president in the history of the United States | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| space | Tech News | 699 | 10485 | 34 | 510 | 6433 | MySpace Gets Goatse'd! | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Sony | Tech News | 674 | 10110 | 36 | 540 | 3992 | Sony's Blu-Ray Goof | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| software | Software | 667 | 10005 | 26 | 390 | 3557 | Ultimate list of over 150 (!) Free Windows Software from Microsoft | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Picture | Design | 656 | 9840 | 42 | 630 | 8592 | Digg needs a picture section | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| PS3 | Gaming News | 647 | 9705 | 46 | 690 | 5276 | PICTURE: The Most Accurate PS3 Ad | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Iraq | Politics | 643 | 9645 | 24 | 360 | 5267 | What America could buy for $145 billion dollars (the 2007 Iraq war budget) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Digg | Tech News | 557 | 8355 | 50 | 750 | 15750 | New Digg V3 Launched | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Nintendo | Gaming News | 525 | 7875 | 50 | 750 | 6574 | Nintendo:Customer service gone shockingly right | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Yahoo | Tech News | 484 | 7260 | 22 | 330 | 5632 | unfortunate placement of yahoo ad | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Cool | Gadgets | 465 | 6975 | 19 | 285 | 10223 | A new way to test your bandwidth (and it looks pretty cool too!) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Image | Apple | 456 | 6840 | 27 | 405 | 9316 | Hi, I'd like to buy a copy of Vista (Image) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Pic | World News | 401 | 6015 | 27 | 405 | 9688 | pic of Aqua Teen "terrorists" laughing in court | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| sex | Offbeat News | 387 | 5805 | 14 | 210 | 4388 | ESPN Front page follow up to kid imprisonned 10 years for having oral sex | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Amazing | Tech News | 386 | 5790 | 24 | 360 | 6117 | Most accurate IP-tracing... Amazing | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Program | Software | 381 | 5715 | 19 | 285 | 3515 | Handy Freeware programs to put on a USB stick | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| iPhone | Apple | 367 | 5505 | 15 | 225 | 22556 | Apple announces iPhone | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Breaking | Apple | 344 | 5160 | 20 | 300 | 9299 | How I learned to break in to Apple and Code for them without permission | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Funny | Offbeat News | 227 | 3405 | 4 | 60 | 5547 | Funny bathroom Graffiti (pic) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Awesome | Offbeat News | 216 | 3240 | 12 | 180 | 6625 | How awesome is this for getting a test back from a professor?? [image] | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Spam | Tech News | 205 | 3075 | 6 | 90 | 6011 | AOL busted for spamming Digg | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| fun | Security | 203 | 3045 | 7 | 105 | 6567 | So neighbors steal your wi-fi net access, kill the connection or have fun. | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| SEO | Software | 185 | 2775 | 1 | 6 | 947 | SEO for FireFox launches | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| UPDATE for 'Ever' and 'Photo' (made on May 7, 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ever | Design | 549 | 8235 | 34 | 510 | 5852 | One Of The Best Billboards You Will EVER See! (PHOTO) | Link | ||||||||||||||||
| Photo | Tech Industry News | 795 | 11925 | 45 | 720 | 7804 | Dear Kevin Rose, Please Create a Photo Section - Sign The Petition | Link | ||||||||||||||||
There are many words which attract attention and people who submit stories on digg.com know that. When you submit a story on digg you pay attention mostly to the title and description.
So I thought I could see what words are most widely used to attract people's attention. This decision of mine was also driven by a comment for a story on digg leading to a small program, which makes a prognosis for your story on digg.com. The comment said that there was nothing special in that program, because if you don't use such words as 'Google', 'Microsoft', 'Linux' the program said you didn't have a chance on digg.
I figured it would be interesting seeing what word is most widely used to make a story popular. And here it is, my small research: "What words are most often frontpaged on digg?".
From the very beginning I asked myself how many stories there were, which had such words like 'top', 'breaking' or 'amazing' in their title's body. I was mistakenly thinking that they should be the most used words, for attracting visitors to that story. I was wrong. The winner was actually 'Game'. After all, we're all still kids!
As one can see, the majority of the words are used in the stories for technology related categories, though diggers are not apolitical, as such words as ''Bush', 'war' and 'Iraq' are very popular words for stories. However, this is driven only by the situation around the actions of the President. If everyone was happy about him, such stories as "I Love President Bush" would all be forgotten in the Upcoming Stories section.
As for the picture category on Digg.com., which has been discussed for some time now, the approximate total number of stories containing the words 'picture', 'image' or 'pic' is over 22,000. And if you take into consideration the word 'photo' too (see update), you get get over 34,000 stories(!).
Note: The information provided was gathered on May 1st, 2007, searching the site Digg.com. The results are likely to have changed since then. An example of this is the story "Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 " for the word "Digg", which not only was frontpaged, but was dugg over 35,000 times. This is due to an incident, when one digg user was banned for posting the key for copying HD-DVD (and possibly Blu-Ray) disks.
Another NOTE: There many word not included in this experimental research, yet it is certain, that the main words are here, or the majority of them. The are other very interesting stories, covering important events, but we have tried to limit ourself to words, giving at least 200 pages of stories in results. We were actually surprised ourselves that 'Kevin Rose' didn't make it on this list!Powered by www.infoniac.com.
