New-Loong Report: Ask Launches BigNews

Ask has just launched a new search service called BigNews, similar to Google News with a side of Digg. It uses something called "BigFactor" to rank stories (using signals like freshness, impact, quantity of multimedia, and amount of related discussion), provides category clusters, and lets you browse by top Diggs and no Diggs . It also contains a "Blogviews" section that seems to simply highlight the latest posts from selected blogs.