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Diigo

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Diigo
Website type
Social Annotations, Highlighting and Social Bookmarking
Websitewww.diigo.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedJuly 4, 2006
Current statusActive

Diigo /ˈdiːɡoʊ/[1] is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo, or be forwarded to someone else via a special link. The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".[2]

Premium account holders can perform full-text searches of cached copies of bookmarks. A full-text search also searches page URLs, tags and annotations.[3] This means that premium account holders can choose to omit tags that already appear in the text of a page to be bookmarked (although text inside images cannot be searched).

The launch of Diigo met with mixed responses, from the unimpressed[4] to the enthusiastic.[5] Diigo beta was listed as one of the top ten research tools by CNET in 2006.[citation needed]

Outside the website, Diigo's graphical user interface includes an optional bookmarklet, or a customizable toolbar, with various search capabilities. Highlight is enabled by a menu, that can either appear automatically when content is selected, or be embedded into the context menu.

In March 2009, Diigo acquired web-clipping service Furl from Looksmart for an undisclosed price.[6][7]

Diigo offers a browser extension, Diigo Web Collector, for Google Chrome[8] and Firefox.[9]

On October 25, 2012, the diigo.com domain was hijacked.[10][11] An unknown attacker changed the authoritative nameserver records ("NS records") for DNS zone DIIGO.COM, temporarily giving control to nameservers at AFRAID.ORG, and causing traffic to be misdirected.[12]

A mobile app, Diigo Browser, is available for iOS.[13] Diigo previously also offered apps for Android and Windows Phone 7, but these are no longer available. The Android app was available on Google Play from 2010 until it was unpublished in February 2024.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ Diigo V4: Research ~ annotate, archive, organize (flash) (Presentation). Diigo. 2009-09-24. Event occurs at 0:00.
  2. ↑ "Diigo help". Diigo.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  3. ↑ "Full text search". Help.diigo.com. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  4. ↑ "Diigo Launches, Nobody Cares". Mashable.com. 24 July 2006. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  5. ↑ "Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool - Search Engine Watch". Searchenginewatch.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  6. ↑ Wauters, Robin (9 March 2009). "Diigo Buys Web Page Clipping Service Furl Away From LookSmart". Social.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  7. ↑ "LookSmart Hands over Social Bookmarking Service Furl to Diigo - ReadWriteWeb". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  8. ↑ "Diigo Web Collector". Chrome Web Store. Archived from the original on 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
  9. ↑ "Diigo Web Collector - Capture and Annotate". Firefox Browser Add-ons. Mozilla. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
  10. ↑ "Emergency Announcement". Archived from the original on 2012-10-28. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
  11. ↑ [dead link]
  12. ↑ "diigo.com historical whois information". Who.is. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  13. ↑ "Diigo Browser". App Store. Apple. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
  14. ↑ "Diigo for Android". AppBrain. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
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