well i believe its nothing more than rumour, i had seen in one of the news website, where they were talking about the deals regards only placing the ads, there wasn't mentioned about the digg getting sold.
well looks like someone got mixed up in the assumption that digg was sold to msn, because of the msn ads
as funny as it would be if digg was sold to msft I think theyre just business partners. You cant let google win them all!
i'm suprised YPN didn't make a larger attempt to try and get digg to switch over, with all the problems Yahoo is having now with the their stock price so low and them loosing value every quarter you would think this would of been the type of deal they would of really went after, if not just to get the business but to get the publicity of it also and other deals that may follow..
ADS BY GOOGLE on SOME pages and MS ads on some of them They may be testing there ads performances according to there ad companies
With google, we get banned very easily. Thus, maybe, they have opted for microsoft. And to increase popularity, microsoft is co-operating together,
You can use other advertisers network with adsense ONLY in rotating base,like you can't use both on the same page at single time. DarkX
also from what i've read that they had a contract/deal setup with Google that most likely ran through the end of the month - therefore they could not jsut pull their ads until their deal/contract was up...
That is also my understanding. Additionally, MS offered it's resources, (high speed servers), probably some of it's knowledgebase, etc etc. There's a good write up here: http://www.threadwatcher.com/2007/08/08/66683-digg-buries-google-hires-microsoft/ by Suzi Barbo. later, Bompa
So what does this mean for stock holders? Should we all pull out from GOOG and put our money into MSFT?? lol