Is Yahoo Buzz Trying to Tell Us Something About Bush?

There was an interesting post on Digg today that made it to the front page in less than 20 Diggs, which is the lowest Digg count I have seen any story be promoted for, especially a duplicate story with a “_3″ at the end.

When I clicked through to the story and then the Yahoo Buzz button, I noticed something interesting about the vote count on the story in Buzz.

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November 24, 2008 | Filed Under Buzz, Social Media | Leave a Comment

Yahoo Buzz Finally Features Non-Yahoo Properties on Yahoo.com

I wrote an article today on Search Engine Land, asking the question “Is Yahoo’s Buzz a Buzz-Kill?” I then went on to explain some of the various ups and downs most people have experienced when trying to participate with Yahoo Buzz.

I had initially worked really hard to get one of my sites, Weird Asia News, into the Buzz beta program. When I finally got in, it didn’t take me long to see that the system didn’t actually promote popular content in Buzz to the Yahoo.com front page.

Instead, members from the front page team would manually pick articles to feature and the almost all, 99.9%, of the articles that were getting featured where from Yahoo properties.
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