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By thepope
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Published: Apr 03 2007 / 23:04

Writing a Digg-Style Popularity Algorithm
Not so long ago I was tasked with creating a web site similar to Digg - users voted on records in the database, and those deemed "popular" were promoted to the front page. But how exactly does such an algorithm work? Let's take a look under the hood...
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daniel replied ago:

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Neat! DZone style weighting. Now we know how Matt and Mike have it going...

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yavori replied ago:

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wow just the thing I was looking for ... I've been searching for weeks for something like this so I know I do my coding right :)

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