***** on iGoogle Digg Widget
April 11, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
So I check my iGoogle for the twentieth time today, and I see this in my iGoogle Digg widget:

First-Ever ***** with Mechanical Digital Display, says the widget headline. I instantly think of a dirty five-letter word, and click through expecting the first-ever pussy with mechanical digital display. Kinky tech, baby.
Imagine my disappointment when I see this:
First-Ever Wristwatch with Mechanical Digital Display, says the actual headline. Damn, and I was expecting something like LEDs on a pubis.
I can see the word wristwatch just fine if I simply add the Digg technology feed to iGoogle, so the word must have triggered a profanity or spam filter in the Digg widget itself. Could such a filter be erroneously triggered on purpose to generate clickthroughs? Are asterisks the new shocker headline? In the tradition of the Rickroll, could this be the first asteriskroll?















