Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combined the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allowed editorial control.

created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google and MSN, which were Yahoo!

's largest competitors in terms of search engines that provided services and web features to their customers.

Unlike other social networking sites, Buzz allowed the publisher to modify the submission.

However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations", the company wrote in a brief statement.