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Digg fans have a "suggestion" for Yahoo!

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Yahoo! launched a new feature yesterday called Yahoo! Suggestions. Yahoo! Autos Senior Engineering Manager Michael Olivier describes it as a way for users to offer comments to let Yahoo! know what topics matter most to its readers. Suggestions are available for Yahoo! Autos, Travel, TV, and a handful of other sites right now, with more expected soon.

But there's something familiar about Yahoo! Suggestions. I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh right, that's it: It looks suspiciously like Digg. The title of the digg link to the Yahoo! announcement is cleverly titled "Yahoo Shamelessly Rips Off Digg and Brags About It." In fact, even Olivier refers to the new site as having "Digg-style voting."

Sure, Digg doesn't have a monopoly on social rankings, but you've got to admit, the web sites do look an awful lot alike, which is enough to prompt an awful lot of ranting among Digg users, both on Digg, and in the comments section of Yahoo! Suggestions.


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