The Unlikely Integration Between Google News and Digg

Google News和Digg不可能的结合

from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu

TechCrunch reiterates the rumor that Google is about to acquire Digg. "The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source." While I don't find too many reasons why Google would buy Digg, it's clear that Digg and Google News don't have almost anything in common.
TechCrunch又提起Google即将收购Digg的传言。“据报道两家公司已经签署了意向协议，即将达成的交易会把Digg收归Google News的旗下。有消息称收购价格在2亿美金上下。”我个人想不出多少Google收购Digg的理由，很显然Digg和Google News基本上没有啥相同点。
Google hand-picked more than 4500 sources and used them to cluster news articles. The idea behind Google News was to display different perspectives on the same subject and to rank them algorithmically. Even the homepage is generated automatically, based on the editorial decisions of the publication included in Google News. Last year, when Google News added comments, the feature surprised many people: the comments could only come from "people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question".
Google拣选了4500多种资源用于聚合新闻类文章。Google News的理念是展示关于同一话题不同的观点然后通过算法进行排名。尽管主页是自动生成的，Google News上还是考虑到了出版机构编辑的观点。去年Google News增加了添加评论的功能，不少人对这一功能都非常的吃惊：这些评论只来自于“实际参与这一事件的人或组织”。
Digg gets the stories from users, who have to manually submit each item. To be promoted on the homepage, a story has to be voted by a sufficient number of users, who can also post comments. "Digg is democratizing digital media. As a user, you participate in determining all site content by discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you," explains the site. Launched as an alternative to Slashdot, Digg expanded from technology news to general news.
Digg的故事都来自用户，他们必须手动提交每一篇文章。一篇文章要想在主页上出现需要有足够数量的用户投票，这些用户也可以进行评论。“Digg是一个民主的数字媒体。作为用户你可以通过发现，选择，分享和讨论你喜欢的新闻，视频和podcast参与决定所有网站的内容。”那个网站这样解释道。作为Slashdot的替身发布，Digg从单纯的科技新闻发展到各种新闻。
To integrate Google News with Digg, Google would have to radically change its news site and this is unlikely. Besides, Google News could easily add a voting system and user comments like in the recent Google search experiment, without needing a site like Digg. If Google does acquire Digg, I think it's for mining a big amount of votes and detecting patterns that could be used to improve features like "edit search results". Digg is also a good platform for experimenting with filtering information, news recommendations and could be helpful in Google's new social quests.
要把Google News和Digg整合起来，Google需要大刀阔斧的改一下他的新闻网站了，这有点不太可能。此外，像在最近的Google搜索试验里做的那样，Google News本身很容易添加一个投票系统和用户评论，根本就不需要一个Digg这样的网站。如果Google真的收购了Digg我想他是冲着发掘大量的投票和监视监视投票规律的，这些可以用来改进编辑搜索结果等功能。Digg也是试验过滤信息，新闻推荐等功能的平台，对Google最近在社交方向的发展也很有帮助。