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Well it seems to make sense why Digg is receiving all this acquisition attention, as Google and Facebook are both getting into the game with their own social voting features being rolled out.

Google has pushed this item from their Google Labs department, and here is their quote:

This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made.

This looks like a huge shot at Mahalo and what Jason Calacanis is doing, and I wonder if his ability to raise $16 million from CBS, Sequoia, Elon Musk, etc.

It’s great to see that Facebook has also gotten into this game with their addition of the voting feature on their homepage.

I’m not exactly sure how it works, but I’ve been voting “down” all of the people I don’t care to see and all of the “joe smith joined zombies 2″ groups, so hopefully I won’t see that shit, but hopefully it will also realize that I want to see when my closest friends join these groups.

On Facebook, I know you can adjust it so you see your closest friends updates more often, but I thought it would be a cool feature to make a network of “close-friends” “acquaintances” etc. but without that annoying “how do you know this person box”, because personally I’ve never used that for a social setting like Facebook.

Those kinds of features are definitely useful on LinkedIN so people can see how you know each other, but Facebook is about getting laid, so they need to figure out a better method until they can get people laid.