I don’t know when Google offered $200 million to Digg. I am not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates to be privy to these deals. I found out over at TechCrunch.
Frankly, a website like Digg has no real benefit to a company like Google. Digg is more of a comedy website than a news website, and the only benefit it could ever bring Google is a search deal to take over the broken search feature on Digg, similar to how search was placed on MySpace.
Besides, there’s no way Digg is worth $200M. But I was interested in seeing what Google had in mind after the purchase.