Google accidentally omits Digg from search results

Reports around the web suggest that users faced a weird situation for a brief period while doing a site: search for Digg on Google it simply did not return any results...

March 21, 2013 / 14:30 IST
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Reports around the web suggest that users faced a weird situation for a brief period while doing a site: search for Digg on Google – it simply did not return any results. Turns out that it was a glitch. Martin Macdonald, on his Inbound Marketing Blog revealed that Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, tweeted that the omission of Digg happened when they were removing a spammy submitted link on Digg.com. Inadvertently, the action got applied to the whole site, leading to the error. Cutts assured of a fix and seems like the issue is non-existent now – you can try doing a site:search yourself.  Click here for full story

first published: Mar 21, 2013 02:08 pm

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