Ask.com gets passed by Digg.com according to Alexa.com. Digg.com, the social networking web site which only began to gain popularity around the middle of last year, has been one of those rare web anomalies that is growing beyond other major web players that have been around for years.

An interesting note about Digg... The domain was actually purchased back in 1998 and was called "Digg Records" when viewing the earliest version of the site in Archive.org.

Personally, I think the name is more fitting to decribe a record label instead of a techy news site.

Here's a snapshot from Alexa (Note about Alexa: I only use it as a minor guage for overall traffic since it's data is often skewed).

The recent traffic boost from Digg is impressive. In just about a year and a half, Digg has surpassed many other top techy news sites, like Slashdot or practicaly any only news aggregate. Slashdot has been working at their rankings for years and years. They were once the only real news source for technology, IT, the Internet, and other related news.

I think we'll see more upward growth for Digg in the year to come.