Finding Diggnation diggs

[silverhack]

I feel like I'm an idiot... I think I'm having trouble doing a search. (I should just kill myself now)
So I've been busy lately and now I'm getting caught up with diggnation. I haven't watched since January and now I'm watching all the old episodes. As Kevin and Alex are reviewing the stories in the episodes, I've tried to find some of the stories on digg so I can check them out. But I can't seem to find the stories!! I've gone to digg.com/users/diggnation and checked out the dugg stories, but I can't find some of them in there. The new Rev3 website doesn't link to the digg stories on the page for each episode. I've even tried doing searches on digg (which BTW I always have trouble with this cause it's slow and gives poor results so I usually use google to search through digg) and even when I search I can't find the stories.
Am I a complete f**king idiot or is there a better way to find the dugg stories from the older episodes?

[ihatecrayons]

Since they removed the functionality of being able to search through your own (and someone else's) diggs, it's really difficult to find them now. Their search is kinda weird.

Maybe you can use Google to search digg? I hear that works better sometimes.

[az0madman]

I find that I get the best results by changing the options below the search bar (after you get the first results).

Change it to Front Page Stories then by Sort by Best Match. Copy and past the title of the Digg from the video page and search again. Haven't found an easier way, but that works for me most of the time.

[yashar]

Since the Episode 89 I have posted them in the discussion threads:

Ep. 89 (http://revision3.com/forum/showpost.php?p=80989&postcount=1)
Ep. 90 (http://revision3.com/forum/showpost.php?p=86316&postcount=1)

[silverhack]

thanks. that's somewhat more helpful. I usually do try to search by front page diggs, but I'll try the sort options too.

on a personal note, I think it's pretty stupid that it is so difficult. They always say in every episode to go check out digg.com/users/diggnation - but then when you do, you can't find the stories! ARG!!

....maybe they will fix that in the next version of the digg website

[ericjosepi]

There's actually been a few frontpaged stories petitioning them to bring back this feature so we'll see what happens

[aaaaaakash]

holy god, i am so frustrated right now with the search features on digg!!!!
:mad::mad::mad:

What was the purpose behind taking off the more advanced features of the search function? And am I just retarded or can i not use strings like "ubuntu 7.04" to search for the exact phrase, or +ubuntu +7.04 to find results with BOTH words. I hope somebody can enlighten me. Sorry if I am coming off as an asshole, but I guess i am frustrated and a newbie.

please help, thanks.

[scoobydiesel]

yeah i hope they fix the search...but i still digg daily so i dont miss much. i have no life.

[electricalburn]

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you aready tried that

[logant]

It's really simple, just use Google. Copy the story title from the Diggnation post and paste it into Google.

""She invented" Result Did you mean "He invented""

First result:

http://tinyurl.com/2bek6d

Also if you want to find things on Digg, don't use the Digg search; use Google.

"What you want to search" site:www.digg.com

For instance if you were trying to find stories on Ubuntu 7.04, you would type in,

Ubuntu 7.04 site:www.digg.com

http://tinyurl.com/yslyno

[spiri]

It's really simple, just use Google. Copy the story title from the Diggnation post and paste it into Google.

""She invented" Result Did you mean "He invented""

First result:

http://tinyurl.com/2bek6d


"Did you mean "He invented" Result Did you mean "He invented"" lol

[aaaaaakash]

i should have made a new thread, because I was actually referring to general searching (not only diggnation stories)....even if I use google, i can't sort by most diggs huh?

[fanboy97]

This has pissed me off for 50 episodes, Digg's search functionality is complete horseshit, there is no ****ing reason except for laziness that there aren't links to all the digg stories they cover in that episode, on the episode download screen. It takes way too long to find the any story on digg, using the exact title. How this hasn't been addressed and corrected long ago is soooooo ****ing stupid. And if any of the diggnation staff read this and are all hurr hurr ****ing troll, get your heads out of your asses and try it yourself.

[logant]

This has pissed me off for 50 episodes, Digg's search functionality is complete horseshit, there is no ****ing reason except for laziness that there aren't links to all the digg stories they cover in that episode, on the episode download screen. It takes way too long to find the any story on digg, using the exact title. How this hasn't been addressed and corrected long ago is soooooo ****ing stupid. And if any of the diggnation staff read this and are all hurr hurr ****ing troll, get your heads out of your asses and try it yourself.

Number 1 Badass right here.

It's really simple, just use Google. Copy the story title from the Diggnation post and paste it into Google.

""She invented" Result Did you mean "He invented""

First result:

http://tinyurl.com/2bek6d

Also if you want to find things on Digg, don't use the Digg search; use Google.

"What you want to search" site:www.digg.com

For instance if you were trying to find stories on Ubuntu 7.04, you would type in,

Ubuntu 7.04 site:www.digg.com

http://tinyurl.com/yslyno

The one with the most Digg's is at the top.

Here's another example:

http://tinyurl.com/2lxxgr

It's really not that hard.

[srhalfwaythere]

I agree the the more advanced search features shouldbe put back into digg. It was nice being able to search my own diggs or someone elses. That should be a default part of their website.

[aaaaaakash]

For instance if you were trying to find stories on Ubuntu 7.04, you would type in,

Ubuntu 7.04 site:www.digg.com

http://tinyurl.com/yslyno

The one with the most Digg's is at the top.

It's really not that hard.

I am sorry, BUT it REALLY IS that hard! Look at the search query you posted! check that link and then tell me if the results with the most digg's are at the top (they aren't for me.....check the first ten stories). I may be a complete idiot, maybe not everyone is getting the results in the same order, but i don't know otherwise.

here is just another quick example: {lamp site:www.digg.com} <--(enter this query in google) ...my third and fourth result only have a few diggs...

the more i want to use digg on a daily purpose, the more I get steamed up about this ****ing search problem. it just boggles my mind, that a leading website like digg.com has these functional problems. yes i know i should stop complaining and leave for reedit or del.icio.us (or something or other), but the only reason I am being so critical is because I truly believe that digg has the great potential of being something revolutionary (in many ways it already is), and that in order to achieve that, it should continue to deliver the necessary updates, and do so efficiently. :o regardless, thumbs up for digg.:D

[tokenuser]

I am a huge fan of using google for searching.
Digg would be well served by implementing a local google search.

logant's method works well, but rather than site:www.digg.com it should use site:digg.com. As soon google gets the "view:timeline" tag working with "site:xxx.xxx" it will be awesome.

Why build a dedicated search engine when you can leverage the best in the industry.

[aaaaaakash]

I am a huge fan of using google for searching.
Digg would be well served by implementing a local google search.

logant's method works well, but rather than site:www.digg.com it should use site:digg.com. As soon google gets the "view:timeline" tag working with "site:xxx.xxx" it will be awesome.

Why build a dedicated search engine when you can leverage the best in the industry.

agreed. and thanks, site:digg.com does help a bit.