Digg Banned in Google

It's too soon to jump to conclusions here, but if there is anything to the speculation that this happened because they are going to replace Google Reader, then the Empire has clearly begun its move to Evil.

EDIT: at this time, the news isn't on Digg http://digg.com/

17:33 UTC

http://i.imgur.com/qRGc5KO.jpg because I'm sure Google may add them back at sometime

http://digg.com/robots.txt thats been fixed btw

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408087

which means all sites like digg will be removed from search.

by the way digg traffic down by 23.66% http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digg.com

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity?

Same for google.com

what reason would they have for this?