Digg New Search

After launching the controversial DiggBar, Kevin Rose also announced that the company was readying an improved search feature.




- cut your results by factors like Digg count, topic, time, etc. - This gives you a lot more info about your query and enables you to drill down to your result much more effectively he says.

- Advanced shortcuts - Add +p to your query for only promoted stories, +u for upcoming stories, and +b for buried.

- Common search tricks now work - like putting your query in quotes for exact match or adding a negative sign before terms to remove it from your results

- A graph showing the relative number of search results by month for the past several years for particular queries

- More effective searching of stories from specific domains - domain filter

- More useful RSS feeds - "We’ve always had RSS feeds for searches, but with the new faceting capabilities, this becomes a lot more effective," says Burka. "You could create a feed that gives you stories with over 1000 Diggs about X and Y but never when keyword Z appears."

- Search is now faster

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