Marc Köhlbrugge

There’s a discussion going on at Digg.com about Google punishing Made-For-Adsense websites.

The title of the story suggests Google will filter all websites that have loads of ads and little content. However, if you read the article closely you will understand this is not the case.

Google is only punishing websites that have loads of Google Ads (using the Google Adsense program) which are advertised themselfs at Google (using Google Adwords).

So this basically means you won’t find any ads for MFA-sites on the Google site but you may still find them in the search results. (which is very unlikely to happen because of the little content).

I may be wrong but this is what I make of it. I guess we will have to wait for an official announcement.

Digg This

Today Digg released their API:

The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site.

I had a quick look at the API documentation and it looks like the API is pretty well-designed. The available information is pretty slick too.

I’m planning on experimenting with it this weekend so expect some Digg related tools soon!