slashdotYesterday Insomniac gave me a tip on a Google Video security problem via chat. I told him it sounds very interesting, but I wanted him to start a thread in a forum, this way I can blog about it at the Search Engine Roundtable. I.e. I didn't think it was Search Engine Land material, but I thought, with a thread, it would be good Roundtable material. He went ahead and posted the thread under his second alias, Entriple, at DigitalPoint Forums and I had Tamar keep an eye on the thread development. Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal got a tip of the thread and blogged it up before I had a chance. Side note: I give Loren kudos for getting to it before me, you win some and you lose some - and Loren is a standup guy!

Now to the point of this blog entry...

Loren hit Digg popularity with his blog post. He probably received at least 20,000 unique visitors from Digg on the story.

So I asked Tamar to tip off Slashdot with the story, she did and they actually covered it at Google Privacy Quickies. We received about 3,000 visitors so far from that link on Slashdot. Slashdot historically has not sent that much traffic to us. I did document once in the past another /. we got and that only sent a bit over 3,000 visitors.

Digg totally blows away Slashdot for traffic, based on the numbers I have seen. Some Diggs get us over 70,000 unique visitors and the traffic then keeps coming.