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Writing a Digg-Style Popularity Algorithm - From Scratch

igglo.co.uk — "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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