The Digg algorithm revealed
$story->diggs = 0; for ( $i = 0; $i < $story->title->exclamation_points; $i++ ) $story->diggs += 500; if ( preg_match('/^The Best .* Ever!$/', $story->title) ) $story->diggs += 1000; if ( $story->opinion == 'is cool' && $story->contains( 'Kevin Rose', 'iPhone', 'FireFox', 'Wii' )) $story->diggs += 2500; if ( $story->opinion == 'sucks' && $story->contains( 'RIAA', 'Zune', 'Netscape', 'Bill Gates' )) $story->diggs += 5000;
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July 7th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
[...] to Ade Olonoh’s top secret Digg prediction algorithm, this post won’t get Dugg because I failed to put “sucks” after Bill Gates name. [...]
July 11th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Ade, I love this blog. Someone left the browser logged into Facebook so I saw your personal blog which obviously linked to this one. I started learning php on my own about 9 months ago so I can actually understand this site. Hope your doing alright, have a great day man.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Thanks Jon!