Not even Henry Wang’s mother understands what he does.But he’s paid $1,000 a month to do it.

Wang, a 17-year-old from DeKalb, has been called a digger, a seeder, a navigator — even a filter.

But Wang calls himself “dirtyfratboy” — his online nickname on Netscape.com and Digg.com, for which he recommends articles to millions of potential readers.

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Google didn’t create the idea of building a great product and then figuring out how to make money from it. That strategy prevailed in the midst of the dot-com boom in the late-1990s.

Google didn’t create the idea of building a great product and then figuring out how to make money from it. That strategy prevailed in the midst of the dot-com boom in the late-1990s.

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