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Digg to strip the word ‘awesome’ from story titles

~ Posted in Web on August 9th, 2007.

Digg founders published a road map today detailing surprising plans to scan submitted titles from stories and to strip the word ‘awesome’ from them. The news comes after recent complaints that the word is being misused.

Jeff Makeshift, a Digg spokesperson commented:

“The decision was taken due to the amount of stories that reach the front page with the word ‘awesome’ in their title. Some stories do feature awesome content, but the majority of them are not really awesome, causing the meaning of the word to become diluted. At Digg, we do not want to be held responsible for the word …


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Personal Space ‘Hula Hoop’ to launch

SensoCorp, the world beaters in human psychology technology (PsyTech) announced the launch date for their SpaceHoop product today. SensoCorp hope that

Googleplex visitor may have found Google’s search algorithm

A college student has made a huge discovery whilst on a work placement program at the Googleplex, the Google Headquarters, it is reported. Andrea Hawk

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