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- eurokc98, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65eBay just crapped themselves
- drewolanoff, on 06/10/2008, -1/+46StumbleUpon = "Whew!", eBay = "F*#K"
- OverloadUT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30@yorn: When I launched my "A Random Number" project last year, I got almost as many hits from StumbleUpon as I did from Digg - I was surprised because I didn't think that many people used it, but the numbers speak for themselves.
- Suchmann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30I love StumbleUpon. Where else can i find out about international moustache and beard competitions?
(not joking: http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/ ) - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Google = "heh heh hehhhh"
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Thats the idea. You're supposed to "Stumble Upon" random sites.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -19/+39How many people actually use StumbleUpon?
And no, I don't mean how many have it installed or used it for a while, I mean, how many of you actually enjoyed the content you found with it? I sure didn't. I suppose I'm part of the "2 million" even though it's been long uninstalled. - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19YOU ARE THAT RANDOM NUMBER PERSON?! When can we get the info man. I've desperately wanted to here the results of that.
- Ridikul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I use StumbleUpon, and really do enjoy it. It should be interesting to see if Google is any better.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@1021
Last I checked, they were doing a great job in email. - fthead9, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Yeah but how many Google toolbars are installed. One massive update and you have in the ballpark of a 100 million new users.
- kavery, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Yes, eBay/PayPal will go bankrupt and fold just as was predicted previously with Google Base and Google Checkout.
Neither company is going anywhere anytime soon - period. - akarpo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I've had a deep hatred for StumbleUpon after they e-mailed my gmail contact list without asking; "search my gmail contact list for people that might already be upon stumbleupon". No where did they say they were going to spam my contact list telling them I've joined SU and was inviting them. I've wanted something tremendously unfortunate to happen to them, ever since.(although it falls upon eBay now, SU got out just in time). Guess my wishes have been answered.
- 0z3r0z, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10google's results are based on your past search history... since i'm a programmer, my search history is pretty boring... with stumbleupon you can at least choose categories that you think are interesting... also the google version doesn't have a thumbs up/down so it can't tweak it's recommendations to what you would actually like to see
- davidrools, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Users might just start "stumbling upon" ebay listings more frequently now
- zdiddy85, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11more useless crap....where's my universal binary google talk???
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's because it pretty much just went public. Yahoo and hotmail have been around for what, more than 10 years each?
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@1021
Those statistics were from June 2006, even before Gmail went public. That's almost one year old. A lot of things can happen in a year.
People, please stop blindly sourcing anything; look at how old it is next time. - Kickersny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Summer of Code?
Google Maps? (The interface/API was very groundbreaking)
Google Talk/Chat (from within GMail)
Go poke around the Google Labs page, you'll find more... - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"How many people actually use StumbleUpon?"
My site ( http://johnbokma.com/ ) has on average 14,000 visitors a day. This month stumble is the #1 and #2 in top referers: 551 and 490 over 18 days. That's about 58 out of 14,000 visitors of my site a day seem to use it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Ebay => GoogleBase / Froogle
PayPal => Google Checkout
StumbleUpon => Google Toolbar Additions
Can anyone list something truly innovative (not just speed and size leveraged) that Google has announced in the last several years? - bmwboy2844, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I never liked SU too much, now eBay is going to screw it up even more...
GO GOOGLE! - notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7meh, I prefer http://www.google.com/mentalplex/
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would be nervous sending my ad inventory to google. They could do an ROI on your site and see if it makes sense to make a site that competes with you and put their link before yours in search results. They are too big, use them with caution.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know, I hate eBay/PayPal enough that I just might drop SU so I won't be supporting them. If Google's offering is even half as good I'll probably switch to that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Damn, why do you have to install their toolbar to use their service as a rival against stumbleupon?! I guess because ***** IE doesn't allow any extensions or widgets or anything like that, just toolbar after toolbar after toolbar... On Firefox, I have enough toolbars. Leave me alone.
- jayasimhan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2may be we have 100 million instances of Google toolbar... but how many of us use all the features on the google toolbar or look for new ones on the toolbar now and then.. the only ones at least i have ever used are the search and autofill. Adding a small icon on the toolbar isn't going to reach millions of users... it needs a lot of promotion...
And like many of us here, It is not that cool to discover only the pages that are related to my search queries. - Nespithe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3rss + digg > stumbleupon
- Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8If you have actually used SU's user system, this is great news.
Trying to find anything other than random websites is futile using SU's horrid layout. - MikeWanDo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How many Google clones of other services/products have I seen released in the past two days?
- pcx99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Little known fact, Stumble-Upon will send more traffic than Digg. If Digg sends you 30,000 people then Stumble will send you at least that. The difference is time and quality. Digg will send you the 30k all at once and they're all pretty interested in seeing what digg is offering. Stumble will send you 30k over a month and a half (and then a constant trickle after that) but most of the traffic will quickly flit away to the next stumble (Maybe one in four stumblers will convert to a real visitor who has the one in one-thousand chance of being an ad-clicker ;).
Stumble has a solid business plan, they sell stumble-visits based on keyword (what keyword the user is stumbling in vs. what keyword the advertiser wants to be associated with). The advertiser gets the advantage of looking "cool" since there's no notification the visitor is landing on a paid stumble-site.
EBay got a good deal but google is right in thinking that it wouldn't be hard to do a duplicate service because their toolbar is a natural fit with stumbling. The only big if is that google hasn't really done a 2.0 social site and that's a big part of stumble's back-end, so it will be interesting to see how far google presses. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2goffy59 says: "Why the ***** does the NASA, even the name need to be ANYWHERE around my computer?"
I always thought NASA just launched space-ships and explored the moon.. who woulda thunk it? - Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Uh... Yeah... hence the 'other than random websites' bit.
SU offers up a little bit more than just clicking a button and making a different, random site appear.
The least they could do is make it usable. - ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess the people at Techcrunch did not use the G toolbar years ago. They G toolbar had thumb up and thumb down buttons years ago.
- elv1s77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google doesn't automatically dominate any product market they enter [viz. Orkut, Checkout]
- Pichu0102, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting note to remember: eBay also bought Skype.
Skype is still one of the best VoIP clients out there.
eBay, despite that their website irritates me for a reason I don't understand, seems to take care of what the acquire. - dennisbier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a brilliant move by Google. They have the famous name, so whatever they do people will watch. This means that all the money they saved by letting eBay do the purchasing, they can save by making a briiant product themselves. After all, Google knows EVERYTHING about you anyway, so they should know exactly what it is you want to find http://weekendeconomist.blogspot.com/2007/03/52-google-is-your-friend.html
- goffy59, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1spelling error...... i was over zealous with spell check. I meant NSA not NASA (feel like dumbass).
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this button isn't available for the Linux platform - here is a link to 'bookmark' on your bookmarks toolbar to googleupon sites.
http://www.google.com/searchhistory/items?op=rec_rd&cd=ifb&hl= - goffy59, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well the only tool bar I use on my browsers, is googly's. I don't care what you paranoid people say about google.. Spell check rules! I'm pretty paranoid myself, but I trust google more then I trust Microsoft or AOL.
here's some evidence as to why I don't trust Microsoft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Why the ***** does the NASA, even the name need to be ANYWHERE around my computer? I wonder what ***** they put in windows P.
Anyways, my point..... google may collect a lot of our data, but the only thing we have to worry about is the crooked corrupt ***** in our government prying at googly's large amount of data. The NASA is aroused by googly's data. I just hope my privacy is protected, I really hate being violated by my government, regardless if I'm doing something wrong or not, its the principle. I'm sure all of you don't like to be watched when your taking a shower, or looking at porn....etc etc. Whatever you all do in your spare time alone.
Gmail has proved to be the best email. It looks nice, its fast, lots of space, GMAIL DRIVE, and so much more. And it integrates with google services :). - TheThirdRider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1googles interesting items/trends widget is awesome. whenever they update the listings i find at least 1 or 2 things that are interesting, and that has been improving quite a bit over the time i've used it. if they can expand that into a full featured service, it would be quite useful.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=interesting_items.xml - djwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what good ebay has done to skype that they will do with stumbleupon
- SpeedyG, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Hmm. Youtube purchase, Doubleclick purchase, and a Stumbleupon knockoff.
This doesn't look at ALL like the behavior of a certain monopolistic operating system software vendor during the late 90's.
Nope, not at all. - BoonEx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SU and any other personal voting systems do good job for us - most of our competition sites and products suck, but people sometimes get caught by their SE positions. Once they happen to land on our pages - things change. If voting would even influence Google SERPs - I am happy.
- NrgUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@thcobbs
They are in last place in the market, but they revolutionized the way we do email online now. Which is what I think they are doing here, - 11amDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whose going to be the next social bookmarking takeover?
- Rekzai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Doesn't really do much for webmasters looking for free traffic considering you can't really rate sites....
- rstrb8r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Basically, Google bet on the flop, and eBay went all in. Google got eBay to push in all their chips, and Google wins on the river.
- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google doesn't compete in any markets outside of search and advertising. None of their attempts to move in on established markets have resulted in anything even close to success. Most of their products have marketshares well under 2%, and that's the "really popular" stuff you see constantly mentioned on forums and digg.
What Om Malik wrote in the middle of last year is still valid today ...
http://gigaom.com/2006/05/18/a-google-reality-check/
"Their data analysis shows that beyond the core search platform, only Google Image Search and Google Mail, are the two off shoots with a meaningful share of their market - 9.54% and 5.51% respectively (I duly note that there is no mention of Blogger.com, and also the fact that Google Calendar, and Google Finance have only been in existence for a very short period of time.)" - dbhaley, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3It won't be long until Google buys your soul.
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