It takes two to Tango

Posted February 14th, 2007 at 11:39 am by Michael Olivier, Yahoo! Autos

 317 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

When you find something broken on the Web, product folks at small web sites are usually easy to connect with. But visitors to sites with significant traffic usually have a tougher time lobbing input directly to site development teams about the good, the bad, and the screwed up. That’s changing for Yahoo! — we’ve brewed up a swanky new community-based recipe for collecting feedback that’s making its way across a number of our sites. It started with Yahoo! Autos and has proliferated across 14 other properties.

We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users. In addition to reading feedback from other users, you’ll find responses from Yahoo! employees about the issues. Product teams regularly read and take action on your feedback. Though we aren’t always going to immediately act on it, it’s incredibly helpful to us in making the best sites we can… and we’ve even been known to reward great suggestions with some Yahoo! schwag.

Check out the Suggestion Boards that are now live: Answers, Autos, Autos Custom, My Yahoo!, Pipes, Real Estate, Site Explorer, Travel, TV, Upcoming.org, Yahoo! Developer Network, and Yahoo! Developer Network Gallery. (You’ll also find links for these in the footer of each site’s homepage and a complete list is here.)

A special shout out to the Yahoo! TV gang, which scores big for bravery in launching a Suggestion Board in the face of an angry mob. That board has proven to be a productive place for us to exchange ideas with you about our TV listings makeover and other changes, and be sure we hear it all. The team is working on continuing to improve the Listings section to make it even better than ever.

The Tango Project (as it’s known internally because, after all, it takes two to tango) became a reality through the magic of Yahoo! Hack Day. We built a simple prototype of the site during our internal Hack Day last June and then built it out with help from engineers in Yahoo! Autos, HotJobs, Personals, Shopping, and Travel.

The Yahoo! Suggestion Board was inspired by a great presentation I saw in the fall of ’05 by Josh Ledgard from Microsoft at the Online Community Summit about their MSDN Product Feedback Center. Also of note is the feedlounge voting system.

More boards should come online on Yahoo! properties in the future (Hotjobs, Groups, and Local/Maps are already waiting in the wings). We hope you’ll weigh in.

Michael Olivier
Senior Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Autos

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Joost Schuur | February 14th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

It seems the more frustrated and angry someone is about something, the less likely they are to consolidate their comments into a few ’suggestions’, because they want to quickly vent their anger.

Look at how many different TV threads are essentially the same thing, and each only has a couple of votes.If they all agreed on the same suggestion (’Go back to the old design’), their votes would aggregate to a much more impressive number.

Jon | February 14th, 2007 at 8:16 pm

Kinda funny that this looks exactly like digg.com. I hope that yahoo would come up with original ideas sometime soon.

If you don’t post this comment, a friend will be writing about the injustice in a major newspaper tomorrow, seems that this happens more than you’d think, and the economy is worse off for it. (WallSJ)

Sudip Mishra | February 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

Shame on Yahoo! Auto for copying Digg’s interface completely. Where’s your originality? Oh wait! You guys have no originality what so ever!

Andrew Fowler | February 14th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

Wow, ripping off Digg UI? How low can Yahoo and it’s employees get? Grow a back bone and design something original.

Martin Smolka | February 14th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

The cheapest ripp of I saw in a long time! Allright, despite the Engadget ‘Keepin it real fake’ of course. Still, it’s soo similiar it’s not even funny.

martin

Angelica | February 14th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

I hope this is a sick joke. How dare you rip of Digg. I mean, you could have at least make it look a little different!!!! Just sad……..so sad…..

Paul Alves | February 14th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

Arent 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.

baron | February 14th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

The color scheme looks really similar to Digg too…

Zack Luye | February 14th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

I like how they’ve ripped off the Digg interface shamelessly…hmmmm….nice

but it does look good

Jeff | February 14th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

Why would you ripoff Digg.com and then even mention them saying you ripped them off?

James | February 14th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

It was good of the team at Digg to let you borrow their technology.

You did ask them right?

Skinny | February 14th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Wow, completle rip off of the Digg interface guys. Way to go! Pathetic

makaveli | February 14th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Stealing from digg.com … BRILLIANT!

Gary | February 14th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

Wow, looks VERY similar to digg.com … you guys dont think that stealing their interface would make you more popular…do you?

Mephistopheles | February 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

Well at least you guys were creative with the design. I mean you admit completely ripping off the *concept* of Digg, but at least you had the common decency and respect to try and creative something that didn’t look like a COMPLETE ripoff of Digg’s entire design.

/sarcasm

Zesty | February 14th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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.

Joe | February 14th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

Original idea.

me | February 14th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

WTF??? I cant belive you think you invented this. Kevin Rose did!!!!!

Nathan | February 14th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

Hmmm…. you guys need to look at this…. http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Shamelessly_Rips_Off_Digg_and_Brags_About_It

Digg | February 14th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

Ever heard of http://www.digg.com?

Zak | February 14th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Stealing digg’s idea isn’t something to brag about….

Joel Morgan | February 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

How does it feel to blatantly rip off your style from Digg and not compensate them for it?

Can’t you come up with some ideas of your own for a change?

(Of course you won’t be approving this comment. No surprise there.)

Michael Sousa | February 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

It looks promising, but it also looks like Digg.com too much. I know they have a good design, but please, with the kind of money Yahoo has, they need a new design team.

Cleve | February 14th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

It seems that this is a replica of Digg.com…

A | February 14th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

Ha! Yahoo Mail sucks, just about every service that Yahoo tries to gain any kind of service basically failed. Good job on putting down Digg. Oh Gmail does far better job at filtering spams and giving its supporters more bandwidth & reliable service for FREE.

Yahoo = failure. It’s sad I’ve gone away from such unreliable service.

hewitt | February 14th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

so ripped off digg, and you’re proud of it? no wonder many of your top employees transferring to other companies.

i suggest you correct that “digg style” phrase into “social ranking style”.

delial | February 14th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

Why does this look EXACTLY like Digg.com? Is Yahoo! only paying their employees to rip off original ideas from successful companies? Has Yahoo! become the new Microsoft?

Petronski | February 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Good artists copy, great artists steal. –Picasso

Non-artists rip-off. –Yahoo

nucleocide | February 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

This is sweet! I’ll +digg it!

Jason | February 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Wow, rip off Digg at little

Christopher | February 14th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

I would have liked this more if you had used a digg style voting system and not ripped off digg’s website.

As a user from June 6, 2005, it is getting annoying when people try and copy good things such as digg.

Chris | February 14th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

Way to rip off digg and make it sound like you came up wtih the hottest idea ever

Sucharith | February 14th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

Come on Guys… We don’t need another rip off of Digg!! Digg Rocks and you guys know that !!

Please stop bragging!!

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Ken | February 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

Way to rip off Digg. Just lost a lot of respect for Yahoo.

muller | February 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

if it was you…. shame on you.

bob | February 14th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

here is an idea - why not acquire digg?

JanSolo | February 14th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Who cares if they ripped off Digg? Everyone rips off everyone - it’s just about who markets and monetizes it better at the end of the day. Juniper made routers after Cisco did, but I don’t see you guys sending them hate emails, and certainly there are not hate emails to all the harddrive companies who each make harddrives with the exact same types of parts (Maxtor and Seagate have platters? Copy cats! Shugart for life). And where are the Digg fanboys to rip Intel for copying AMD’s x86 64 instruction set? At least the Yahoo folks were manly enough to admit where they got their inspiration, versus the Netscape folks who just didn’t give a damn.

Billy | February 14th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

How can a company like yahoo go and rip off digg.com? Have you no conscience? I am disgusted!!!

rocko | February 14th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

wow, when I invested almost 10 grand in yahoo 5 years ago, I expected a lot more than stealing ideas from interesting new concepts. Consider my stocks sold.

youssef | February 14th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

if you’re not using digg code then dont mention them. these people are crazy ( the digg cult ) who cares. if they have a problem then yahoo and digg can settle in court. why all this shouting ??

just a waist of time

youssef | February 14th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

a video voting community

thewebguy | February 14th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

digg called, they want their site design back.

Monkey | February 14th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

WOW great job ripping off Digg. I will never again go near Yahoo!

yi | February 14th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

Everyone seems to have covered the “you copied Digg, shame on you” part. So, I guess I won’t be repetitive here. I just hope someone is fired for this.

Kevin Rose | February 14th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

for shame, yahoo, for shame…

Meg | February 14th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

Hi guys, I was just wondering if I could borrow the concepts behind yahoo.com without paying you any money to use them. Oh, and I think I’ll use your layout and color schemes as well. Don’t worry though, I’ll link to you in where most of my future users will never see it. :D

George P. | February 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

Wow you fan boys need to relax, you guys are so pathetic.
You think Digg or Kevin Rose invented this idea??
It’s been around for years.

wil | February 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

i find it ridiculous and stupid that those digg fanboys will post idiotic comments about Yahoo! “blatantly ripping off digg and shamelessly brag about it” when a user-voting system definitely isn’t originated from digg, furthermore user-voting system isn’t an original idea at the first place ever since democracy occurred hundreds of years ago, just different ways of implementing it, it’s like saying Google copied Altavista since both are search engines

furthermore credit is definitely given since Digg is mentioned and i don’t see a shred of words bragging about it

digg fanboys, grow up please, you’re giving digg a bad name

Aaron | February 14th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

OK, yes yes yes, shame on Yahoo. But come on it’s obviously only one person who typed in the last 20 comments! Sheesh!

Joe Rogan | February 14th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Yahoo the Carlos Mencia of the net.

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Argon | February 14th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

What’s with ripping off Digg? Come up with something fresh, don’t copy the “new guys” just because Yahoo! hasn’t been hip since 97′.

Vladik | February 14th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

“Wow. What an interesting design. Wait a minute, have I seen that before somewhere?”

Come on, this is clearly an imitation of Digg. I only go to Digg every two days, but this is just blatant. At least give Digg credit somewhere other than a page where nobody will see it (in the future, that is). For example, link to Digg at the bottom of very page. “Site based on Digg.com”.

TnT53 | February 14th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

….. This looks ALOT like digg… except the colors are AWFUL!
If I stole something and painted it with random colors, I wouldn’t be bragging about it, and so shouldn’t you Yahoo…

Huey | February 14th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

It’s ashame for yahoo to drag a blame on Digg. It’s fair and square competition, if Yahoo could not live up the expectation then it’s their failure, not because of Digg’s existence.

nikki | February 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

Is there not a single original idea left in this world?

Shameful.

Zeke | February 14th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

oh btw George P. are u retarded? Yes it was an original idea from Kevin - unless you include voting on anything the same thing… show me the site that started something similar to digg (and before digg0 and ill stfu.

jay | February 14th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

i liked it the first time, back when it was called DIGG!

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fargle_b | February 14th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

Well, Yahoo! is now completely irrelevant. Want news? Got hit other sites with A/P, Reuters, etc.

Want Digg? go hit Digg.

Sal | February 14th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

I bet if you check the IP addresses from all these post that are pro-DIGG you would find that they come from probably the same 3 people…

-Sal

singleSolo | February 14th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

yeah, i’m with JanSolo, microsoft and apple rip off each other too. Intel and AMD rip off each other too.. Oh, Google and Microsoft rip off each other too, either tech or business model and you rip off your friend’s homework too!!

Digg Yahoo for rip off digg.com

Mr. Jeff | February 14th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

God, you people suck. Who freaking cares. They credited them, yet you’re treating it like they claimed they came up with it all themselves… You make me embarrased to be a Digg fan.

maggy | February 14th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

whoa. yahoo, shame on you!

you guys suck for ripping off DIGG.COM | February 14th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

“Yahoo the Carlos Mencia of the net.” LOL I’LL DIGG YOU UP FOR THAT ONE +1

Kyle | February 14th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

Yeah, good idea. Maybe you can copy everything Google does better than you too.

Highly Disappointed | February 14th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

George P., I am neither a fan nor a boy. And your generalization shows that you are clearly not above any other person commenting here.

I just think it’s sad that Yahoo rips off Digg.com so blatently. The idea is one thing. But the design, color scheme, c’mon!

disbelief | February 14th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

My respect for Yahoo has gone even lower.

How unfortunate that after your Netscape shenanigan copying Rose’s idea, that this is the direction you are taking things. Yahoo was once a small company, and it was innovation *to some extant* and not blatant plagerism that kept you afloat. The fact that you would use an idea generated by someone else–and possibly hurt his chances of survival is slimey and exactly the reason why people HATE your company.

I hope your company tanks for such poor, immoral judgment

Alex | February 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

Wow…just wow. Please…I don’t even know what to say. I’m speechless. Just get rid of it please. Get original Yahoo! You’re falling behind and this is like shooting yourself in the foot.

DIGGMAN | February 14th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

you shameful losers have to copy off DIGG.com to increase traffic……

R | February 14th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

So, uh, why the need to rip off the Digg interface?

you guys suck for ripping off DIGG.COM | February 14th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

THIS ISNT A BOOK REPORT YOU CANT JUST CITE WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM! YAHOO=THIEVES

John | February 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

Look at all the losers complaining that Yahoo! ripped off digg. HAHAHHAAHAA.

anti_yahoo_alliance | February 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

http://www.digg.com/

Carlos | February 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

It’s unbelievable how pathetic you guys have become. It honestly is embarrassing.

Can't Believe It | February 14th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

No reason to use Yahoo anymore since you copy everyone else.

k0re | February 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm

Is that a lawsuit I smell?

Angry American | February 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm

So this is how America is Eh? You rip off a well know site and try to pass it off as one of you innovations. Why does it seem like American companies cannot think for themselves any more? Shame on you yahoo and you can forget ever getting my business again!

Ibl3wGoogle | February 14th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

Since when does yahoo ever design anything thats considered unique or new?

Why not just call your company Yahoogle?

plinkyle | February 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

See above.

sean tyas | February 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

sean tyas does not approve of this, you are blatantly ripping off digg.com. this is just embarassing for yahoo… you better hope I don’t compose a song dedicated to how bad yahoo is because armin and pvd are bound to play it in front of thousands.

kazuhima | February 14th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

awesome, i like HTTP://DIGG.COM more than this though!! :) (actually, i dont think i like this site at all)

yahoo webmaster have no creativity | February 14th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

YOu have got to be joking. Yahoo Webmasters, dont you have some creativity and cant you create your own style. It just goes to show that creativity is diminishing.

timt | February 14th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

To the people shaming Yahoo, it’s not like Digg invented thumbs up or thumbs down! I think Siskel and Ebert invented that, for which Digg should be ashamed of themselves for using their system. Moreover, if any of you commentators here were true hackers, you’d know that you take ideas from the best existing implementations and build upon them.

illias532 | February 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

Shame on Yahoo! for stealing interface ideas from a well respected web-site such as digg.com.

I am severely disappointed.

Robert Winters | February 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

Well done for stealing the work of Digg.

What’s more surprising is people still use Yahoo. Not only does it take hours to find a user name that isn’t taken but Google has won the search war. Get over it.

Fer | February 14th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

Where´s the diggit button? wanna digg this page…….Diggggggggg

Blake | February 14th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

It’s NOT a ripoff of digg! Yahoo: Don’t give into the spammers. Suggestions serve an entirely different market than the egotisitcal nerds who frequent digg.com

Keep it up, don’t cave in!

poiok | February 14th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

If there would be fewer morons on here than on digg…I’m all for it.

milton | February 14th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

Hey Yahoo, nice rip off of Digg.
Lame.

Jon Davis | February 14th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

What’s with the Digg crowd going ballistic because they have a story-vote system similar to Digg (which Yahoo guys even admit in their post)? Did Digg invent the thumbs-up or something?

I visit Digg literally on a daily basis but the asinine “OMG This is a Digg ripoff. Yahoo is the suck” posts are just reflecting badly on the Digg user base.

Get over yourselves Diggers.

l.m.orchard | February 14th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

The blog post says, “Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users.” They credit Digg for the feature, not that Digg alone invented web-based voting and ranking. The innovation here is that the voting is used for a set of suggestions, rather than a news site.

So… ripoff? No, this is what’s called imitation and flattery, with the inspiration clearly credited.

But, don’t let that stop you from piling on. Try to come up with some original insults and criticism while you’re being a lemming, at least.

Digg Schmigg | February 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

Digg blah blah blah….

Who cares? Everyone is ripping off Digg.com these days?
Ever heard of Pligg? Now anyone can start their own Digg rip-off.

mjrpes | February 14th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

Wow, I am completely ashamed to be a digg user. You guys should be flattered but instead you’re acting like idiots.

Here we have yahoo taking what works with Digg and applying it to something novel. The novelty is the ability to rank product feedback via a community ranking system. This is the most important part, and it is not copying Digg.

And you guys are getting upset with what you should be most flattered about. Yahoo has used a similar layout as Digg because it’s what works and everyone is used to it. The Digg design is ingrained in our heads, we are comfortable with it. We like the large icon on the left hand side, one click voting, all of that. Yahoo is doing what’s best for their users by taking what works, what everyone is used to, and applying it to something new.
It wouldn’t be possible to invent something entirely new; they are using the Digg model because there is nothing better.

This is how progress works in the world, folks.

Sam | February 14th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

What kind of proud designer/company would want to rip off another design and make it its own?? clearly thats not YAHOO as far as am concerned!

I’ve gotta suggestion to Yahoo. How about you name your blog Digghoo?? you might as well!

GoYahoo | February 14th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

everyone rips off from everyone. at least yahoo admits it :)

j138abstract | February 14th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

I interviewed to work at yahoo as a designer. It was made clear in the interview that imitation and not inovation was the way things were done at Yahoo. This rip off of Digg is no suprise. Yahoo has so much potential but bring anything new or interesting to its users. It is no wonder why Google is destroying Yahoo.

michael | February 14th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

good job ripping off digg. people still use yahoo?

DIGG.COM | February 14th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

OMFG! WHAT A DIGG RIPOFF!

I knew Yahoo had run out of ideas but stealing someone elses website is just shameful and probably against the law.

Edge | February 14th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

Yeah except people usually pay when they use something someone else came up with. Didn’t Google blatantly rip off a design for a IE7 website and Yahoo got it’s panties in a bunch over it?

DIG DUG | February 14th, 2007 at 11:37 pm

DIGG > YAHOO

Jenka Drenka | February 14th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

This is a terrible ripoff.

Yahoo will pay.

movieMC | February 14th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

trig.com is another site that uses diggs technology. You can “trig” someones profile, blog, pictures and tons of other crappy things.

Jeremy Henricks | February 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

I agree with some of the others in that who cares if people use the basic idea behind Digg. Heck, even Digg isn’t as original as some people like to believe.

I’ve worked at Symantec for 12 years and came up with a very similar concept in 2002 for use in our call center. While it saw some use, management didn’t see the benefit and the project eventually died a slow death a few years later.

Fast forward to today, and the idea behind Digg-type communities is becoming huge. That, and Digg doesn’t cover all topics, so there’s plenty of room for niche sites that mimick Digg but cater to different types of users.

Shameonyou | February 14th, 2007 at 11:48 pm

I hope you get sued big time. Btw, they are selling originality on ebay for 10 bucks.

Simon MBA Student | February 14th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

I was trying to decide whether or not I should short Yahoo!’s stock. Thanks, Yahoo!, for providing a compelling reason. Maybe you should have thought this one over? Focus group, perhaps? I mean, seriously, it’s hard to keep a straight face about this. I probably have the same expression as when I’m watching George W. Bush try and formulate a coherent thought. Good luck with employee retention by the way.

DiggMoron | February 14th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

Hello I am yet another moron from digg.com who thinks that digg owns the exclusive rights to a specific appearance on the web. Now I’m going to talk about popping zits, lawsuits, and my blowup doll!

PS: I have a hard-on for Macs and irrational behavior and hubristic defense of moronic ideals!

Weee!! I’m a diggloser!

why? | February 15th, 2007 at 12:13 am

Hmm this site looks familiar…

heh | February 15th, 2007 at 12:16 am

Who would be defending a ripoff of Digg for Yahoo! Autos other than Yahoo employees? Do you think there’s actual Yahoo! fans out there defending this? LOL C’mon guys.

Kevin Rose | February 15th, 2007 at 12:22 am

DIGG INVENTED THE WHOLE WEB AND YOU STOLE IT!!!!1!!1

DIGG INVENTED THE COLOR WHITE AND NOW YOU ARE EVIL THIEVES

DIGG INVENTED THE URL, STOP USING IT NOW OR WE WILL SUE YOU AND EAT IN YOUR CAFETERIA.

GIVE IT ALL BACK OR YOU’LL BE SORRRRRYYYYYY

Loren | February 15th, 2007 at 12:24 am

boycotting yahoo.

Anonymouse | February 15th, 2007 at 12:44 am

Oh Yahoo. Things were looking up with Pipes and now you show us that you’re still the same old Yahoo after all. Come on, please.

lp | February 15th, 2007 at 12:51 am

SHAMELESS COPY OF DIGG

Evan | February 15th, 2007 at 12:57 am

Many of you complaining about Yahoo copying Digg seem to have missed the point of “Tango”.

This isn’t about Yahoo creating yet another Digg. This is about LETTING USERS COMPLAIN and then LETTING OTHER USERS VOTE on which things are most commonly annoying SO THEY GET FIXED.

I wonder how many of the foul-criers are going to cheer on Digg when they patent their voting widget and demand license fees from anyone who dare “copy” it. Ever wonder why so few sites have 1-click buying? Is that the kind of web you want?

vidi | February 15th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Well, the idea is a good one, and it was proved to be effective on digg, as many people have said, but as other people have said, digg doesn’t own the rights to a certain design and/or idea. So really yahoo isn’t ripping digg, and they give credit to digg.

What they didn’t do is make it into a news website, if they did then it would just be another netscape thing.

Just, who would want to vote on the best problem with yahoo, I mean, “I think that yahoo auto page is broken” is a problem that should be sent to tecnical support, not voted on, it just doesn’t make much sense, unless I have the wrong end of the stick.

I don’t think digg will last very long, it is collecting more and more morons ever day, if you look at the comments above, what can I say, apart from shut the f*** up. The comment system on digg is usually abused and what people say is very moronic, apart from a select few who actually say something important.

So, while digg made the voting style popular, it has no rights over the design and implementation.

sdp | February 15th, 2007 at 1:02 am

this looks very similar to digg….

in fact it looks like a rip off.

QuadCore | February 15th, 2007 at 1:07 am

It looks nice but its still pretty lame and while digg probably will not sue Bill Gates might for stealing his ideas on borrowing technology because he is evil N stuff. Apple/Linux for the win. The Internet is a series of pipes.

Hope I hit some the digg.com irrationalities in one shot but all the same Yahoo has been crap for years this changes nothing continue to ignore and maybe someday they will shrivel like AOL.

golnar | February 15th, 2007 at 1:13 am

hahaha, yeah, thats funny with all the diggers comments and all … yeah, yahoo sucks

Jimmy | February 15th, 2007 at 1:15 am

Hmmmmm.
Who’s digg?

DigDug | February 15th, 2007 at 1:17 am

Honestly, who cares if Yahoo copies Digg? Diggers should treat this as evidence that their site is worth copying. Calacanis tried to copy Digg - did it work? No! He’s off dieting or something. Relax, Diggers!

Phill Midwinter | February 15th, 2007 at 1:19 am

Very, very badly ripped off. Sure take the idea, but the complete interface?!

http://www.digg.com

RIP OFF | February 15th, 2007 at 1:29 am

COMPLETE RIP OFF

Daniel | February 15th, 2007 at 1:36 am

MY GOD RIPRIP RIP… Digg Prevails!

Stefano | February 15th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Looks like http://www.digg.com

AJ | February 15th, 2007 at 1:41 am

It’s not just the voting idea, it’s the layout as well. It doesn’t even LOOK original. That’s two ideas you copied. You’re a big corporation and you can’t hire any innovative people?

digguser | February 15th, 2007 at 1:44 am

Tango is for collecting user feedback on yahoo! products while digg is a social news site - they are not competing with each other! Most likely the folks commenting here against yahoo have not even used Tango. Please have the courtesy to use the site before commenting.

Tango has borrowed ideas from Digg (yes, this happens on the Internet all the time) and Yahoo! has the balls to credit Digg. Case dismissed.

Go Yahoo!

YahooSucks | February 15th, 2007 at 1:53 am

Pathetic Yahoo…

Copyright Infringement Should Not Be Tolerated | February 15th, 2007 at 1:55 am

I’m a digg user but certainly no “fanboy”. As a multimedia graphic designer I know a complete rip-off when I see one. I don’t see a problem with borrowing functionality ideas (without that where would the web be) but an organisation such as Yahoo blatantly stealing graphical styles leaves me speechless…

…are you guys hiring monkeys to do your design work now?

DLLL | February 15th, 2007 at 1:57 am

Sad.. Very Sad indeed.

John | February 15th, 2007 at 2:06 am

I won’t use this service *specifically* because it’s a Digg.com rip-off.

John

William | February 15th, 2007 at 2:06 am

Shame on you, diggers. You guys make me feel ashamed I visited digg.com everyday. GET A LIFE! You guys are obviously idiots or just one person posting over and over again. (including self-proclaimed Kevin Rose up there). Digg does not invent anything!

Yahoo!, please start moderating the comments!

DIGG > Yahoo | February 15th, 2007 at 2:11 am

Good work on ripping off one of the most popular sites on the internet. I hope Yahoo goes under.

Me | February 15th, 2007 at 2:12 am

Come on now Yahoo, what’s with making a complete rip off? At least put a little effort into making your own ideas…

sean | February 15th, 2007 at 2:13 am

I love how you have a copyright notice on the bottom of the Auto’s page.

briank | February 15th, 2007 at 2:17 am

Why does it take two to tango when it only takes one to rip off digg.com?

DanielPunt | February 15th, 2007 at 2:24 am

How the hell can you justify that?!?! Complete Digg ripoff, feel VERY ashamed.

Scoobies | February 15th, 2007 at 2:44 am

Fantastic idea!

Yahoo will build a different community with different tastes than Digg. Stop complaining, do you really want news of a new barbie doll to make the front page of Digg??
I think not. The tards can take over Yahoo.

mendietta | February 15th, 2007 at 2:46 am

Riiiiiip off lol.
looks like digg.com to me

Wroaight | February 15th, 2007 at 2:49 am

SHAME…
By now you should at least be apologizing

Bjorn | February 15th, 2007 at 3:18 am

You could have innovated just a little bit here…

thisislame | February 15th, 2007 at 3:18 am

Wow, this sucks it’s just a copy of digg.

defiantone | February 15th, 2007 at 3:21 am

Must Yahoo! become so shameless as to copy a genuine design”
I will not have anything to do with this.

faded | February 15th, 2007 at 3:26 am

For you to copy the idea of Digg.com is to be expected. For you to copy even the layout of Digg is very sad. You do have web designers
on staff don’t you?

john | February 15th, 2007 at 3:37 am

digg.com should sue these copycats.

kknd | February 15th, 2007 at 3:38 am

This is what your community is all about, making useless pathenic kiddy comments, now you all arrived here to do the same.

ANONYMOUS | February 15th, 2007 at 3:50 am

D.I.G.G COPYRIGHTED THE COLOR BLUE AND YELLOW.

Muted | February 15th, 2007 at 3:52 am

there is no need to duplicate a good site to fix the old, crumbling one

Tauno | February 15th, 2007 at 3:53 am

Did you ask digg.com for permission to use their design? Did you atleast tell them, that “Hey, guys… we are going to take your design and make lots of $ with it!” Or do you atleast put a link to digg.com on the Yahoo! Autos page? No? Why not?

I still can’t believe it.. oh wait.. is it 1st of april?

Chiston | February 15th, 2007 at 3:54 am

quote: “That’s changing for Yahoo! — we’ve brewed up a swanky new community-based recipe for collecting feedback that’s making its way across a number of our sites” and “Digg-style interface”… Hmm sounds and certainly looks like an easy an lazy Digg ripp!!! Shame on Yahoo!

Brian | February 15th, 2007 at 4:05 am

This is a display of laziness at its finest. Be more original!

SmooveP | February 15th, 2007 at 4:06 am

Wow. Now I remember why I stopped using Yahoo. They don’t do anything original. How do you sleep at night?

I guess the droves of web 0.1 savvy people that are your customer base will be completely blown away by your interface. And then they’ll see the hundreds of references to Digg.com and maybe….just maybe they’ll see the light.

Thanks in advance for all the converts!

NXBit | February 15th, 2007 at 4:06 am

wtf

this is just shameless copying. expect a letter from digg’s lawyers.

Spekkio | February 15th, 2007 at 4:21 am

Boycotting DIGG!

(Because clearly their users (or the ones posting on here at least) have SERIOUS issues)

diggerguy | February 15th, 2007 at 4:24 am

has yahoo ever done anything original? i mean even their name is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. “Yet Another” stating that they are just one of many and later in the game at that.

glad to see they continue this proud tradition.

Duncan | February 15th, 2007 at 4:41 am

Its amazing how many stupid people there are commenting on this. As a few others have mentioned this is a voting system, pure and simple. The idea of a voting system is not an idea digg.com came up with. Maybe if you actually read the article and looked at what Yahoo! are doing with the voting system we might find some more constructive and relevant comments here. Its a suggestion box system for their websites, an excellent idea in every way.

Show some intellegence here people, your starting to make the internet look like its packed with morons. This is not going to create a lawsuit, its not the same as what digg.com do, just read the article and if you can’t read then go back to school, not slating something without understanding it.

And no I’m not a Yahoo! fanbody before anybody uses that as an excuse to carry on the charade.

boogycream | February 15th, 2007 at 4:54 am

Laaaaaaaaaaame. Come up with your own ideas, jesus.

JL Picard | February 15th, 2007 at 5:11 am

thanks for directly copying and stealing from another site.

diglife | February 15th, 2007 at 5:15 am

YOU GUYS ARE LAME… THAT IS PRETTY SAD THAT YOU RIPPED DIG LIKE THAT.

Daniel Higginbotham | February 15th, 2007 at 5:15 am

To get just quick, free usability feedback, web developers can try http://www.hallwaytesting.com .

chris | February 15th, 2007 at 5:23 am

Yahoo and Carlos Mencia have a lot in common i see.

wazul | February 15th, 2007 at 5:24 am

“it’s like saying Google copied Altavista since both are search engines”
- Comment by wil - Feb 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

It still does not make it right.

That comment is like saying:”Don’t be angry about your car being stolen, because it got stolen the same way as my neighbors motorbike last month.”.

And what comes to Yahoo, this seems like a desperate attempt to regain peoples interest towards your sad and messy looking site, by any way possible. This kind of stunt just makes me dislike you even more. You could at least tried to be even a tiny bit original when designing the voting buttons.

lagi | February 15th, 2007 at 5:28 am

digg.com?

wazul | February 15th, 2007 at 5:29 am

Oh, how lame of me.. I should select my quotes right. Here is a better one:
“…and where are the Digg fanboys to rip Intel for copying AMD’s x86 64 instruction set?”
- Comment by JanSolo - Feb 14th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Gordon Wagner | February 15th, 2007 at 5:33 am

Why would you rip off digg.com’s design..? Is this not the kind of thing that usually kills a site dead in the eyes of the digirati? VERY bad move. VERY poor form. Shame on you.

Nate | February 15th, 2007 at 5:35 am

I would think that a ’shameless copy’ of another idea is to be taken as a compliment. After all, you know what they say about imitation…

To me, this situation is comforting. Not because the interface is the same, or even that the idea is old. It’s the corporate spin they put on it in the release. Having worked as an engineer for a major US corporation for years, I have to say how comforting it is to find the same inflated, pompous rhetoric lauding a “new strategy” or decision that a high school senior could have made. It’s even more preciously ironic when the “new strategy” is merely imitating an idea that a high schooler could have come up with.

nat | February 15th, 2007 at 5:36 am

is yahoo not embarassed about this?
it is like going to school and copying your best friends hair cut..
totally lame!!!!!!!!!!

ldj | February 15th, 2007 at 5:39 am

What a neat approach to customer interaction. Let the customers determine what is the most important thing to fix.

Of course, if someone was using a Y! or other blatant ‘borrowing’ of Yahoo’s intellectual property, I am sure they would sue.

I wonder if they even offered digg.com a licensing agreement or something.

LDJ

Ty | February 15th, 2007 at 5:41 am

Boycott yahoo, this is ridiculously brazen plagiarism

walrus | February 15th, 2007 at 5:45 am

Please take the low-grade pot reference out of the article. For a multi-billion dollar company, you’d think that just stealing something would be enough. But then to “entice” the user base with the offer of schwag. Now that’s over the bridge.

me | February 15th, 2007 at 5:46 am

OMG. digg.com, a bit more green.

Pissed off digg user | February 15th, 2007 at 5:46 am

Wow… nice brilliance guys! Maybe it takes “digg” to tango.

Maybe next time you could use some of your money to design your own interface…

AB | February 15th, 2007 at 5:50 am

Hey, nice job ripping off of digg guys
maybe you should use some of your own creativity next time
this is despciable. How’d you even get your jobs to begin with?

BOYCOTT

Joe Cardin | February 15th, 2007 at 6:03 am

Yahoo.digg.com?

Yahoo Groupie | February 15th, 2007 at 6:05 am

Dang, I didn’t realize Digg users were such cry babies. Lately it seems as if Digg is overrun by people that feel comfortable saying whatever through their keyboards. The Yahoo site is not even in direct competition with Digg. Yahoo really should look at http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Shamelessly_Rips_Off_Digg_and_Brags_About_It because the people getting the most diggs are the ones with the most sense and siding with Yahoo.

I think its a great idea for any website that wants feedback from customers. Reminds me of when I was a couple thousand years younger and sitting at the round table, “All in favor say I!”.

Tom Strong | February 15th, 2007 at 6:06 am

Ugh! Look at all the Digg kiddies who have their panties in a bunch. Get a life, dorks! Digg sucks!

Eric | February 15th, 2007 at 6:09 am

Maybe Yahoo Bought Digg and hasnt told us yet?!?!?

fanboy | February 15th, 2007 at 6:13 am

this isn’t about “fanboys”

this isn’t about yahoo using a user-voting system.

this IS about yahoo ripping off digg.com almost entirely both in form AND functionality.

there are plenty of user-voting type web sites out there, and clearly digg’ers don’t have a problem with that. there are some that pre-date digg, so how could they.

but this is practically an exact replica.

pretty sad coming from a company with as many resources as yahoo. they couldn’t come up with their own design? change/add some bells and whistles?

since your asking… it sucks.

brad | February 15th, 2007 at 6:18 am

DIGGNATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew | February 15th, 2007 at 6:32 am

I must say…I’m all for trying to grab the market and what not, but it does look an awful lot like digg…I know the economy is run off of copying and improving other people’s ideas, but this REALLY looks a lot like digg…like…WAY too much like digg, I would say…

It’s too bad this thread has become a flame war…then again, you guys were the ones who copied without hardly changing. Did it change under the hood? Maybe, but us consumers can’t see that…

Natasha | February 15th, 2007 at 6:35 am

It’s unfortunate that it was stated to be a “Digg-style” commenting system but that the whole thing was inspired by Josh Ledgard from Microsoft at the Online Community Summit and the feedlounge voting system; Yahoo (and it’s employees) know well enough that this is a direct copy of digg.com. This is a good example of a big company stepping all over a smaller one. The idea is great but poorly executed.

And to the people who think digg users are being STUPID to protest this: digg.com doesn’t own exclusive rights to the design. The guy who wrote that is stupid and is missing the point. Their idea, the concept, the voting system, the comment system, and yes, the design, was all blatantly copied from digg. If I was in a large, billion dollar company and I went to YOUR small business (or your favourite business website) and blatantly copied every feature, would you not be outraged?

Psygonn | February 15th, 2007 at 6:39 am

Yahoo should definately have thought this over. Digg users have a right to be PO’d, yahoo is a big enough company to come up with its own ideas. Some people(probably yahoo staff and the like) are badmouthing digg users for bad mouthing yahoo. Most if not all of the comments by digg people were written by digg users who came here from clicking on a digg link. With a site like digg that uses links to other places it is dangerous for a site as well known as yahoo to copy off digg because digg will post a link there and digg users pay attention to links about digg. A few posts above this is obviously somone making fun of Kevin Rose. Why make fun of Kevin Rose when he does not badmouth yahoo like many diggers are? My guess is that Somone wants digg to look as bad as possible so people reading the comments think that diggers are blind zealots who badmouth yahoo because digg told them to. Diggers are people just like yahoo users are people just like the yahoo webmasters are people and all of us make mistakes. Yahoo deserves a second chance(a chance to remove this copy and publicly apologise to digg)before the lawsuit comes. However, if yahoo blows its second chance then lawsiut away digg, lawsuit away.

yahoo sucks | February 15th, 2007 at 6:39 am

What is your problem? has the net really just come to copying each other because of uncreative people? I spit on the people of Yahoo.

Dave | February 15th, 2007 at 6:40 am

My god, This is a new low for yahoo.

Dumbledorito | February 15th, 2007 at 6:42 am

Not only did you guys rip off Digg, what the hell were you thinking when you screwed up your TV listings page? Can’t you bozos do anything right?

Joe | February 15th, 2007 at 6:43 am

OK, I have no problem with the fact that you all use the same interface as Digg.com. Afterall, the entire internet was created by people copying ideas they liked from other peoples’ sites.

But to so blatantly make an exact replica, I should hope that you will be shelling out big bucks to the folks over at Digg, based on principal alone.

yonas | February 15th, 2007 at 6:48 am

I can’t believe you have the nerve to steal Digg’s UI. This is disgusting and completely unacceptable from such a huge company. Go hire some original thinkers.

Wow | February 15th, 2007 at 6:48 am

hope this is a joke

tucker | February 15th, 2007 at 6:53 am

wow. just wow. so you paid someone to plagiarize, thats nice.

timbertract | February 15th, 2007 at 6:57 am

ditto to the folks above.

DVN | February 15th, 2007 at 7:01 am

Who cares? Does anyone even use Yahoo! anymore? Yahoo used to be cutting edge, but they are now the internet equivalent of an out of shape 50 year old trying to run a marathon. It’s not like they suck, but they just can’t keep up with everything.

original | February 15th, 2007 at 7:02 am

I think it is funny that EVERY comment is about yahoo not doing something original, yet the only comment that IS original is the first one. The rest of the comments are just copies of the first, how hypocritical is that.

Scott | February 15th, 2007 at 7:04 am

OM TEH G!!!!! DIGG R!P0FF!!!!!!!!! KEVIN ROSE WILL EAT YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@!!

Rust | February 15th, 2007 at 7:05 am

Knee-jerk reactions aside, what a few brave souls have noted is more true than not - the Digg functionality is precisely what works. It’s the same reason that all cars are essentially the same, varying only in features, colours and looks (this is a simplified analogy, don’t get your panties in a bunch over it).

Having said that, Yahoo has shown a shocking lack of originality in adapting Digg’s functionality. Why not use Yahoo!’s official colours (if any) instead of Digg Blue? Indeed, the only true differences are Yahoo!’s inclusion of the “Suggestions” box and the use of light green instead of light blue as a highlight colour. Everything else is just a slight (*very* slight, for the most part) variation on Digg.

What’s worse is that the posting claims that this design has been Yahoo!’s from the start, and inspired by pretty much every site *except* Digg. It even goes so far as to try to place this site’s inception at a time before Digg was out, suggesting that Digg is the copycat, not Yahoo!.

Shame, Yahoo!, shame. While I don’t agree with much of what has been said here, I do consider your new “suggestion boards” to be blatant and obviously intentional rip-offs of an existing, well-designed site. What makes it worse is the slimy way you attempt to “prove” that you did it first.

Haax | February 15th, 2007 at 7:06 am

STFU people they didnt STEAL anything and they gave credit where it’s due. There’s a lot more things in this world you can spend your time getting upset about.

Jeffrey Smith | February 15th, 2007 at 7:07 am

Learn to design your own interfaces… n00bs.

Shawn | February 15th, 2007 at 7:14 am

Copy digg much?

I didn’t expect this from a major corporation.

Chad Valentine | February 15th, 2007 at 7:14 am

Geez guys, why are you ripping off Digg? Mind you, I don’t have much use for Yahoo’s less-than-inspired search results, but now I see you can’t even be inspired to do tweak the colors a bit (see Netscape). Had little time for the Yodel before; have less now.

toni | February 15th, 2007 at 7:17 am

I’m out of good mood, so spare me some slack, I’ll be mixing my emo with (no)logic

So fsck it. Digg clone is everywhere. I guess Yahoo has won the honour of sarcasm, criticism just because it’s a well known company and big enough to make fun of. If you are to sell you stock, then sell it. I’m sure someone else will gladly buy your stock, and the waits till this controversy turning into something good.

Digg-style voting has been proven to be very good, so I think it’s a common sense if someone else adopt it to a new service.

In anyway, if Digg doesn’t like it they can line up some lawyer and we can see some software patent war.

Sheesh. Now I know why software patent sucks.

I heard Digg is not all good either, but they also improving lately. It’s kinda interesting to see where Yahoo can take this Digg-style system to. Will it be better? For sure it may draw some aces out of some sleeves.

bugger | February 15th, 2007 at 7:19 am

THIS IS THE PROPERTY OF DIGG.COM, YOU AUTOMATICALLY FAIL!!!1!1!!!111!!!

Matt | February 15th, 2007 at 7:21 am

RIP OFF SHAME ON U

Joe | February 15th, 2007 at 7:22 am

Cool a blatant ripoff. To bad I will never use it or any other Yahoo product or service. I don’t blame them though and I bet it cost them alot more money than it did Digg to create.

Chad | February 15th, 2007 at 7:26 am

It’s one thing to appreciate another site for their efficiency and wish that style of opperation for your own site. It’s quite another to BLATANTLY rip off the Digg.com without compensating them for it.
Yahoo, fire your designers because they stole a good idea and hire someone who can come up with good ideas of your own.
Perhaps you should hire the people who created Digg.com. I’m sure they’d be willing to help you build your site, although now —were I them— I would expect a HEFTY price tag.
Poor taste, bad practice, and ethically wrong. Change your website.

Jessica | February 15th, 2007 at 7:27 am

Ok, have you no shame? Guess not as there seems to be no ethics involved.

Hell, when I made up my _personal_ website on Geocities, I at least had the integrity to email people and ask if I could copy their pics. If they responded with a yes, I’d use it. If I heard nothing, I didn’t.

Lack of morals in business doesn’t surprise me anymore but blatantly ripping off something like this is pathetic.

Instead of saying ‘digg-like’, how about sending some money their way? After all, they did all the work.

harry | February 15th, 2007 at 7:28 am

is there a “SUGGESTION” board to see howmany ppl would “suggest” Digg over this? Way to PO what little loyalty u had! realy BRILLIANT!

harry | February 15th, 2007 at 7:28 am

DIGG THIS YAHOOOO!

Brent | February 15th, 2007 at 7:29 am

I never realy had anything against yahoo till now, what moron over there thought copying digg and calling it thiers wouldn’t piss off the entire digg fanbase?

Kurt | February 15th, 2007 at 7:30 am

Thief!

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John | February 15th, 2007 at 7:39 am

Heh. I stopped using yahoo when google came out. Never looked back.

Saw the article on digg about how yahoo ripped off it’s UI and i completely agree. It’s pathetic to even think you could match digg’s success and community.

Yahoo’s gone downhill. Hell, the #1 search term on yahoo is “Google”. That should say something about your company.

Here’s an idea yahoo, stop plagarising other devs ideas and work.

Just go back to being a third rate search engine that’ll bow down to government pressure (cough cough, china) and hand over user info whenever the feds feel like asking for it.

No one really used your services anyway.

dave | February 15th, 2007 at 7:39 am

you suck, don’t copy sites ya lame stupid americans

drake | February 15th, 2007 at 7:40 am

Cmon Yahoo! developers…this is really sad. I know you guys have some new, fresh ideas of your own. How sad for Yahoo!…

Cool | February 15th, 2007 at 7:40 am

That is so amazing. I can’t believe someone could think of that. You guys are so original. I hope you get sued.

Zach Francisco | February 15th, 2007 at 7:46 am

I cant beleive Yahoo would sink so low and copy Digg. 4-ever Digg will own Yahoo!

Can't Believe It | February 15th, 2007 at 7:47 am

Yahoo is like Microsoft from the 90s. They have no shame in copying. I will never use Yahoo again. They suck.

attackmonkey | February 15th, 2007 at 7:47 am

nice, now we have 2 digg.com

Chris | February 15th, 2007 at 7:52 am

I don’t know what we’re yelling about. Loud noises!!!!

bob | February 15th, 2007 at 7:52 am

um ok. nice job ripping off digg.

Protrox Web Traffic | February 15th, 2007 at 7:55 am

Lol this is kinda sad..

FavoTube | February 15th, 2007 at 7:55 am

I don’t like this idea.

Monti | February 15th, 2007 at 8:02 am

This is really bad.

I sincerely hope someone at Yahoo! will count all of the bad comments on this page, and realize that this is NOT cool.

Mike | February 15th, 2007 at 8:05 am

Way to rip digg off nice work yahoo!!! Your a great company indeed.

cstenson | February 15th, 2007 at 8:06 am

The internet is a town without a sheriff. Who really cares.

Alex | February 15th, 2007 at 8:08 am

What is Yahoo’s problem? has the net really just come to copying each other because of uncreative people? At least a reputed company like Yahoo should use its own creativity and create a new professional and distinct look for their new service. People will really love to use this new feature when designed with a perfect new look.

pxmm | February 15th, 2007 at 8:08 am

Wow, someone should get Joe Rogan to call you out for STEALING :) That story got a lot of DIGGs too, just like this one.

Adam | February 15th, 2007 at 8:14 am

Congratulations, Yahoo, in getting a couple thousand angry Digg users spitting nails at you! I mean, you couldn’t even make the ripped off Digg interface look a little more different, could you?

You fine people at Yahoo could always make amends by–oh, I don’t know–sending Digg.com a nice fat donation for involuntarily designing your site?

Casimir | February 15th, 2007 at 8:14 am

Great job ripping of Digg. Did you just copy and paste the source code.

yahoo_sux | February 15th, 2007 at 8:18 am

@Tom Strong

You should try posting that comment on a real user-moderated website if you want to see how many people agree with you.

Holly Cow | February 15th, 2007 at 8:19 am

Fire the guy who approved this. Yahoo - obviouly this guy has no shame in doing this and is wrking hard to come up with valid reasons as to why he did this. Just FIRE the dude!!

Dug | February 15th, 2007 at 8:20 am

No one has mentioned this, but this is a total ripoff of DIGG

Ronald McDonald | February 15th, 2007 at 8:21 am

lol, digg effect

Jacob Stahler | February 15th, 2007 at 8:22 am

I feel really ashamed for the Digg community right now. Going over to Yahoo to spam them incessantly for “copying” Digg with immature and juvenile comments does nothing to stop yahoo but everything to give Digg a bad reputation that for the longest time belonged to the YTMND and EBAMUSWORLD community.

Guys, get over yourself. If the code is a line-for-line ripoff from Digg, you can bet that Kevin Rose & Co. are already looking into legal options. However, Digg is not the only site that is built on user-generated and voted-upon content, nor should it be. The internet is a vast realm with room for many; Yahoo and Digg will not diminish eachother.

weetz | February 15th, 2007 at 8:23 am

You guys are unbelievable. Digg didn’t invent the internet. They made an interface that works really well and that people like. Yahoo said ‘why the hell try to do something noone likes when there is a format that people identify with’. Companies do this all the time.

Stop being such digg fanboys and grow up.

Eric | February 15th, 2007 at 8:23 am

Wow, calm down. Everyone is getting their panties in a bunch over this, whee. Yahoo copying Digg will not affect my life, therefore I don’t care.

ript | February 15th, 2007 at 8:28 am

Shameless and disappointing. This blatant theft by a once reputable company is a new low, even for yahoo. Where are all the copyright lawyers now?

But on the other hand, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, congratulations Digg!

ch_jakal_lv | February 15th, 2007 at 8:30 am

Yahoo, I spite thee. But it’s ok, because I use the google search engine for everything anyhow…Hooray for google, it’s not the new yahoo, because yahoo was never new.

Greg | February 15th, 2007 at 8:35 am

For shame.

null | February 15th, 2007 at 8:38 am

hmm so you steal something and claim it as your own? wp yahoo wp

Neuro | February 15th, 2007 at 8:43 am

Although community feedback is hardly unique, you could at least go so far as to do something remotely original on your own site. You know, at least pay someone to draw some new icons for you. I think I’ll be avoiding yahoo services.

digg | February 15th, 2007 at 8:44 am

yahoo you are a waste of internet. always have been. always will.

mutant | February 15th, 2007 at 8:46 am

I visit yahoo often, i have been doing so for some years now. I dont know much about business or companies, all i want is good stuff from yahoo.

“To reach space, a million things had to happen here on Earth. Imagine the things required to create habitat on another planet.”

Ricky | February 15th, 2007 at 8:50 am

what the hell yahoo?!
You took diggs look, and even stated that you did, are you idiots?!
look forward to a lawsuit newbs xP

BlackadderIII | February 15th, 2007 at 9:06 am

I’d just like to comment as one of the small percentage of digg.com users who actually read and understand the articles not just the title…

Some of us are aware this is NOT a news site like digg, and that your decision to apply a digg-like interface to something else is a really good idea.

If people on the web weren’t allowed to take ideas off each other, we wouldn’t have digg.com - a community-moderated site to visit - on account of loads of other sites doing it first.

Yes, some of us are sane, adult developers. Liking the digg rip-off for a feedback system, it’s a good idea.

Jack | February 15th, 2007 at 9:11 am

I always thought the first rule of web-design was not stealing the layouts of others.

I hope there are consequences to be paid.

Tom | February 15th, 2007 at 9:12 am

Boy, that is really shameless.

Bob | February 15th, 2007 at 9:13 am

I dunno, it sorta has a DIGG.COM feel to it. Maybe Yahoo should come up with some original ideas once in a while.

Jamey Wood | February 15th, 2007 at 9:23 am

I don’t understand why some in the Digg community are so paranoid about anyone building on Digg’s ideas. Do they really believe that Digg itself doesn’t build on ideas which preceded it?

YahooWannabeDigg | February 15th, 2007 at 9:25 am

seems with all these complaints i doubt it will do very well. i mean why use something that has been done before? and better for that matter. yahoo ive lost all my respect for ya. Google and digg is what I will be using !!

yahoo sucks | February 15th, 2007 at 9:29 am

YAHOO SUCKS!!!

dark | February 15th, 2007 at 9:38 am

THIS ISN’T A DIGG RIP OFF.

There have been plenty of digg ripoffs in the past. It’s a fine line between ripoff and inspiration, but this should be under inspiration.

There is a huge difference in how this is being implemented. This is a voting system for website fixes and changes. Read the post it is not being used for news at all.

foofoo | February 15th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Booo yahoo. Hooray digg.

DiggLover | February 15th, 2007 at 9:44 am

If Yahoo! were a student at a university, it would be expelled for plagiarism. Nice example to set for others, Yahoo!. I guess this what you get from a company that built its Corporate HQ on top of a landfill.

Robert | February 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am

I can’t believe it. What a disgrace, Yahoo, you lost all any shred of respect I had for you as a company. We diggers cherish digg.com so isn’t it obvious we’d all be offended by this rip-off? You seriously can’t just brush us aside and naively believe we wouldn’t care.

Jeff | February 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am

I used to like Yahoo!, but their site is going downhill faster than I can keep up with. How can shareholders allow their company to be driven into the ground like this? Their lack of business acumen is appalling.

Homerr | February 15th, 2007 at 9:50 am

Very lame ripp off. Why doesn’t Yahoo! buy Digg! for $100 million instead?

Dan Schnell | February 15th, 2007 at 9:53 am

I like Digg’s interface, but not when yahoo’ers copy it. Yahoo will always be 2nd rate at almost everything:

Digg > Yahoo
Google > Yahoo
Gmail > Yahoo Mail
ESPN FF > Yahoo FF

Sorry yahoo!

Bob Saget | February 15th, 2007 at 9:53 am

“Yahoo the Carlos Mencia of the net.
Comment by Joe Rogan - Feb 14th, 2007 at 9:41 pm”

LOL!

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Darren McLaughlin | February 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am

Digg didn’t invent “the thumbs up icon” or voting. LOL.

Dan O'Grady | February 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am

I bet it is one of those noobish rips where they forgot to changes all the codes to point to their site and now it will say DIGG/NEWS at the top of your browser!

Mark Lancaster | February 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am

Yahoo has been going downhill ever since they first created a simple search engine. Nothing they have ever created is worthy of acclaim.

Cat | February 15th, 2007 at 10:44 am

“Digg didn’t invent “the thumbs up icon” or voting. LOL.”

You ever been to Digg? They have “Digg it” icons. Practically the same as voting. N00b.

And to Yahoo!: did you ask the Digg people if you could copy them? I don’t think you did. What is wrong with you?

Tim | February 15th, 2007 at 10:50 am

I like how they’ve ripped off the Digg interface shamelessly…hmmmm….nice

brian | February 15th, 2007 at 11:19 am

This is another reason I no longer use Yahoo

ms_borg | February 15th, 2007 at 11:43 am

So many comments, yahoo are you listening.
I guess my work is done. :-(

Digg Dugg | February 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am

Sure, voting mechanics are good for this feature, but was it really necessary to ripoff Digg entirely? I mean its just kind of shameless… AND you mention Digg in the post. Are you joking?